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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 266, Issue 23, 14958-14963, 08, 1991

The petite phenotype resulting from a truncated copy of subunit 6 results from loss of assembly of the cytochrome bc1 complex and can be suppressed by overexpression of subunit 9

ME Schmitt and BL Trumpower
Department of Biochemistry, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire 03756.

Disruption of the gene for subunit 6 of the yeast cytochrome bc1 complex (QCR6) causes a temperature-sensitive petite phenotype in contrast to deletion of the coding region of QCR6, which shows no growth defect. Mitochondria from the petite strain carrying the disruption allele were devoid of ubiquinol-cytochrome c oxidoreductase activity but retained cytochrome c oxidase and oligomycin-sensitive ATPase activities. Optical spectra of cytochromes in mitochondrial membranes from the petite strain lacked a cytochrome b absorption band and had a reduced amount of cytochrome c1. Analysis of mitochondrial translation products showed normal synthesis of cytochrome b. Western analysis of mitochondrial membranes from this disruption strain indicates core protein 1 of the cytochrome bc1 complex is present in normal amounts, while cytochrome c1, the Rieske iron-sulfur protein, subunit 6, and subunit 7 were absent or present in very low amounts. Taken together, these findings indicate a loss of assembly of the cytochrome bc1 complex. High copy suppressors of the disruption strain were selected. Two separate families of suppressors were found. The first contained QCR6. The second family consisted of overlapping clones of a second gene distinct from QCR6. These plasmids contained QCR9, the gene which codes for subunit 9 of the yeast cytochrome bc1 complex. Suppression of the QCR6 disruption strain by overexpression of QCR9 indicates a critical interaction between these two proteins in the assembly of the cytochrome bc1 complex.
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