National Institutes of Health/National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH/NIGMS)
R35GM137929
United States
Citation
Journal: Science / Year: 2022 Title: Structures of 's respiratory chain reveal the diversity of eukaryotic core metabolism. Authors: Long Zhou / María Maldonado / Abhilash Padavannil / Fei Guo / James A Letts / Abstract: Respiration is a core biological energy-converting process whose last steps are carried out by a chain of multisubunit complexes in the inner mitochondrial membrane. To probe the functional and ...Respiration is a core biological energy-converting process whose last steps are carried out by a chain of multisubunit complexes in the inner mitochondrial membrane. To probe the functional and structural diversity of eukaryotic respiration, we examined the respiratory chain of the ciliate (Tt). Using cryo-electron microscopy on a mixed sample, we solved structures of a supercomplex between Tt complex I (Tt-CI) and Tt-CIII (Tt-SC I+III) and a structure of Tt-CIV. Tt-SC I+III (~2.3 megadaltons) is a curved assembly with structural and functional symmetry breaking. Tt-CIV is a ~2.7-megadalton dimer with more than 50 subunits per protomer, including mitochondrial carriers and a TIM8-TIM13-like domain. Our structural and functional study of the respiratory chain reveals divergence in key components of eukaryotic respiration, thereby expanding our understanding of core metabolism.
Details: Solutions were made fresh from concentrated stocks, filtered and de-gassed before equilibration onto Superose6 column
Grid
Model: Quantifoil R1.2/1.3 / Material: COPPER / Mesh: 300 / Support film - Material: CARBON / Support film - topology: HOLEY / Pretreatment - Type: GLOW DISCHARGE / Pretreatment - Time: 30 sec. / Details: 30 mA
Vitrification
Cryogen name: ETHANE / Chamber humidity: 100 % / Chamber temperature: 277.15 K / Instrument: FEI VITROBOT MARK III Details: incubation time before blotting: 60s blot time: 9s blot force: 25 offset: -2 incubation after blotting: 0s.
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FEI TITAN KRIOS
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Film or detector model: GATAN K3 (6k x 4k) / Number grids imaged: 1 / Number real images: 7895 / Average exposure time: 5.9 sec. / Average electron dose: 66.69 e/Å2
Electron beam
Acceleration voltage: 300 kV / Electron source: FIELD EMISSION GUN
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