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Originally published In Press as doi:10.1074/jbc.M402049200 on March 25, 2004

J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 279, Issue 23, 24813-24825, June 4, 2004
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Tim50, a Component of the Mitochondrial Translocator, Regulates Mitochondrial Integrity and Cell Death*

Yin Guo, NaEun Cheong, ZhiJia Zhang, Robert De Rose, Yun Deng, Steven A. Farber, Teresa Fernandes-Alnemri, and Emad S. Alnemri{ddagger}

From the Center for Apoptosis Research and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Kimmel Cancer Institute, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107

In yeast, Tim50 along with Tim23 regulate translocation of presequence-containing proteins across the mitochondrial inner membrane. Here, we describe the identification and characterization of a novel human mitochondrial inner membrane protein homologous to the yeast Tim50. We demonstrate that human Tim50 possesses phosphatase activity and is present in a complex with human Tim23. Down-regulation of human Tim50 expression by RNA interference increases the sensitivity of human cell lines to death stimuli by accelerating the release of cytochrome c from the mitochondria. Furthermore, injection of Tim50-specific morpholino antisense oligonucleotides during early zebrafish embryonic development causes neurodegeneration, dysmorphic hearts, and reduced motility as a result of increased cell death. These observations indicate that loss of Tim50 in vertebrates causes mitochondrial membrane permeabilization and dysfunction followed by cytoplasmic release of cytochrome c along with other mitochondrial inducers of cell death. Thus Tim50 is important for both mitochondrial function and early neuronal development.


Received for publication, February 24, 2004 , and in revised form, March 23, 2004.

The nucleotide sequence(s) reported in this paper has been submitted to the GenBankTM/EBI Data Bank with accession number(s) AY551341, AY551342, and AY551343.

* This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grant CA 85421 (to E. S. A.). The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

{ddagger} To whom correspondence should be addressed: Thomas Jefferson University, Kimmel Cancer Institute, Bluemle Life Sciences Bldg., Rm. 904, 233 S. 10th St., Philadelphia, PA 19107. Tel.: 215-503-4632; Fax: 215-923-1098; E-mail: E_Alnemri{at}lac.jci.tju.edu.


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