Racho, Julia ORCID: 0000-0003-4830-3062
(2025).
ALR induced disulfides impact CPOX biogenesis and affect porphyrin metabolism.
PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.
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Abstract
The sulfhydryl oxidase augmenter of liver regeneration (ALR) is well known for its function in the disulfide relay, an import machinery for mitochondrial IMS proteins with conserved cysteines. Here, it reoxidizes oxidoreductase MIA40 in a thiol-disulfide exchange mechanism and feeds electrons from this reaction into the respiratory chain. No other role has been known for ALR yet. In this work, it was shown that ALR has functions beyond the disulfide relay by identification of at least six novel ALR interaction partners. The interaction of ALR with one of these newly defined interactors, coproporphyrinogen oxidase (CPOX), has been further characterized. CPOX contains conserved cysteines and is localized in the IMS like ALR. There, it catalyzes the third last step of the heme biosynthesis pathway. It was found that CPOX interacts with ALR over selected cysteines, thereby gaining at least one disulfide. Investigating the purpose of the ALR-CPOX interaction and the relevance of CPOX’ disulfides, it was discovered that CPOX undergoes complex multi-step processing. During its maturation, CPOX is cleaved four times. The first step is assumed to be mediated by matrix metalloprotease MPP. The third cleavage step releasing CPOX into the IMS is discovered to be carried out by the IMMP1/2 complex. It could be shown that cleavage efficiency of CPOX by IMMP1/2 is dependent on the presence of a disulfide between CPOX cysteines C304 and C357. Additionally, CPOX needs this disulfide in the IMS to stabilize it and prevent aggregation. Lastly, data generated in the course of this thesis revealed that cytosolic versions of CPOX including its yeast homologue Hem13 are not dependent on cysteines at all for proper functionality as they do not undergo processing. However, the cytosolic localization of CPOX resulted in potentially toxic accumulation of the CPOX product protoporphyrinogen IX.
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-784734 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Date: | 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Place of Publication: | Köln | ||||||||||||||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||||||||||||||
Faculty: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences | ||||||||||||||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences > Department of Chemistry > Institute of Biochemistry | ||||||||||||||||||||
Subjects: | Generalities, Science Natural sciences and mathematics Chemistry and allied sciences Life sciences |
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Date of oral exam: | 7 February 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Funders: | RI2150/5-1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Projects: | Neue Interaktionspartner der Sulfhydryl : Cytochrom c Oxidoreduktase ALR | ||||||||||||||||||||
Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/78473 |
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