Publication Date:
2012-05-26
Description:
Pyruvate constitutes a critical branch point in cellular carbon metabolism. We have identified two proteins, Mpc1 and Mpc2, as essential for mitochondrial pyruvate transport in yeast, Drosophila, and humans. Mpc1 and Mpc2 associate to form an ~150-kilodalton complex in the inner mitochondrial membrane. Yeast and Drosophila mutants lacking MPC1 display impaired pyruvate metabolism, with an accumulation of upstream metabolites and a depletion of tricarboxylic acid cycle intermediates. Loss of yeast Mpc1 results in defective mitochondrial pyruvate uptake, and silencing of MPC1 or MPC2 in mammalian cells impairs pyruvate oxidation. A point mutation in MPC1 provides resistance to a known inhibitor of the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier. Human genetic studies of three families with children suffering from lactic acidosis and hyperpyruvatemia revealed a causal locus that mapped to MPC1, changing single amino acids that are conserved throughout eukaryotes. These data demonstrate that Mpc1 and Mpc2 form an essential part of the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3690818/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3690818/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Bricker, Daniel K -- Taylor, Eric B -- Schell, John C -- Orsak, Thomas -- Boutron, Audrey -- Chen, Yu-Chan -- Cox, James E -- Cardon, Caleb M -- Van Vranken, Jonathan G -- Dephoure, Noah -- Redin, Claire -- Boudina, Sihem -- Gygi, Steven P -- Brivet, Michele -- Thummel, Carl S -- Rutter, Jared -- K99 AR059190/AR/NIAMS NIH HHS/ -- K99AR059190/AR/NIAMS NIH HHS/ -- P30 HL101310/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- P30DK072437/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- R01 DK071962/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM087346/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM094232/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01GM083746/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R24 DK092784/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- R24DK092784/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- RC1DK086426/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- T32GM007464/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Jul 6;337(6090):96-100. doi: 10.1126/science.1218099. Epub 2012 May 24.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22628558" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Sequence
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Amino Acids/metabolism
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Animals
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Anion Transport Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism
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Biological Transport
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Carbohydrate Metabolism
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Citric Acid Cycle
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Drosophila Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism
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Drosophila melanogaster/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism
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Humans
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Metabolomics
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Mitochondria/*metabolism
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Mitochondrial Membrane Transport Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism
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Mitochondrial Membranes/*metabolism
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Mitochondrial Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Oxidation-Reduction
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Point Mutation
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Pyruvic Acid/*metabolism
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae/*metabolism
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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