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Biol Open. 2014 Apr 25;3(5):387-96. doi: 10.1242/bio.20147138.

Aldehyde dehydrogenase, Ald4p, is a major component of mitochondrial fluorescent inclusion bodies in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

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Yoshiko Misonou, Maiko Kikuchi, Hiroshi Sato, Tomomi Inai, Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa, Kenji Tanaka, Isamu Miyakawa

Affiliations

  1. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi 753-8512, Japan.
  2. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi 753-8512, Japan Present address: Division of Cell Biology, Institute of Life Science, Kurume University, Hyakunen-kohen 1-1, Kurume, Fukuoka 839-0864, Japan.
  3. Department of Life Science, College of Science, Rikkyo University, Tokyo 171-8501, Japan Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency, Gobancho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0076, Japan.
  4. Laboratory of Medical Mycology, Research Institute for Disease Mechanism and Control, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan Present address: Department of Microbiology, Aichi Gakuin University School of Dentistry, Kusumoto-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8650, Japan.
  5. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi 753-8512, Japan Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency, Gobancho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0076, Japan [email protected].

PMID: 24771619 PMCID: PMC4021361 DOI: 10.1242/bio.20147138

Abstract

When Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain 3626 was cultured to the stationary phase in a medium that contained glucose, needle-like structures that emitted autofluorescence were observed in almost all cells by fluorescence microscopy under UV excitation. The needle-like structures completely overlapped with the profile of straight elongated mitochondria. Therefore, these structures were designated as mitochondrial fluorescent inclusion bodies (MFIBs). The MFIB-enriched mitochondrial fractions were successfully isolated and 2D-gel electrophoresis revealed that a protein of 54 kDa was only highly concentrated in the fractions. Determination of the N-terminal amino acid sequence of the 54-kDa protein identified it as a mitochondrial aldehyde dehydrogenase, Ald4p. Immunofluorescence microscopy showed that anti-Ald4p antibody specifically stained MFIBs. Freeze-substitution electron microscopy demonstrated that cells that retained MFIBs had electron-dense filamentous structures with a diameter of 10 nm in straight elongated mitochondria. Immunoelectron microscopy showed that Ald4p was localized to the electron-dense filamentous structures in mitochondria. These results together showed that a major component of MFIBs is Ald4p. In addition, we demonstrate that MFIBs are common features that appear in mitochondria of many species of yeast.

© 2014. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd.

Keywords: Ald4p; Aldehyde dehydrogenase; Inclusion body; Mitochondria; Yeast

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