MINOS1 is a conserved component of mitofilin complexes and required for mitochondrial function and cristae organization

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Mol Biol Cell. 2012 January 15; 23(2): 247–257.

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MINOS1 is a conserved component of mitofilin complexes and required for mitochondrial function and cristae organization

Alwaleed K. Alkhaja,^a Daniel C. Jans,^b Miroslav Nikolov,^c Milena Vukotic,^a Oleksandr Lytovchenko,^a Fabian Ludewig,^a Wolfgang Schliebs,^d Dietmar Riedel,^e Henning Urlaub,^c^f Stefan Jakobs,^b^g and Markus Deckers^a^*

^aDepartment of Biochemistry II, University of Göttingen Medical School, D-37073 Göttingen, Germany

^bMitochondrial Structure and Dynamics Group, Department of NanoBiophotonics, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany

^cBioanalytical Mass Spectrometry Group, Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany

^dInstitute for Physiological Chemistry, Ruhr University of Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany

^eMax-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany

^fDepartment of Clinical Chemistry, University of Göttingen Medical School, D-37075 Göttingen, Germany

^gDepartment of Neurology, University of Göttingen Medical School, D-37073 Göttingen, Germany

Thomas D. Fox, Monitoring Editor

Cornell University

*Address correspondence to: Markus Deckers (Email: Markus.Deckers/at/medizin.uni-goettingen.de).

Received September 9, 2011; Revised November 7, 2011; Accepted November 14, 2011.

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Abstract

The inner membrane of mitochondria is especially protein rich and displays a unique morphology characterized by large invaginations, the mitochondrial cristae, and the inner boundary membrane, which is in proximity to the outer membrane. Mitochondrial inner membrane proteins appear to be not evenly distributed in the inner membrane, but instead organize into functionally distinct subcompartments. It is unknown how the organization of the inner membrane is achieved. We identified MINOS1/MIO10 (C1orf151/YCL057C-A), a conserved mitochondrial inner membrane protein. mio10-mutant yeast cells are affected in growth on nonfermentable carbon sources and exhibit altered mitochondrial morphology. At the ultrastructural level, mutant mitochondria display loss of inner membrane organization. Proteomic analyses reveal MINOS1/Mio10 as a novel constituent of Mitofilin/Fcj1 complexes in human and yeast mitochondria. Thus our analyses reveal new insight into the composition of the mitochondrial inner membrane organizing machinery.

INTRODUCTION

Mitochondria play a crucial role in the production of cellular energy. Under aerobic conditions, the mitochondrial respiratory chain uses electrons derived from catabolic reactions to establish a proton gradient across the inner mitochondrial membrane. This proton gradient drives the F₁F_oATPase to generate ATP from ADP and P_i. The F₁F_oATPase is a multisubunit enzyme (Collinson et al., 1994 blue right-pointing triangle

; Boyer, 1997 blue right-pointing triangle

) consisting of the membrane-spanning domain F_o, responsible for H⁺ translocation, and the F₁ domain, which contains the catalytic sites for ATP synthesis (Boyer, 1997 blue right-pointing triangle

; Fillingame, 1999 blue right-pointing triangle

; Velours and Arselin, 2000 blue right-pointing triangle

). Whereas the enzymatic function of the F₁F_oATPase has been extensively analyzed, recent analyses have attributed a second function to it. Besides its role in energy metabolism, the F₁F_oATPase was also shown to play an important role for the morphology and organization of the inner mitochondrial membrane (Giraud et al., 2002 blue right-pointing triangle

; Paumard et al., 2002b blue right-pointing triangle

; Gavin et al., 2004 blue right-pointing triangle

; Thomas et al., 2008 blue right-pointing triangle

; Velours et al., 2009 blue right-pointing triangle

; De Los Rios Castillo et al., 2011 blue right-pointing triangle

). The inner membrane of mitochondria forms cristae, which fold inwards toward the mitochondria lumen, and the inner boundary membrane, which aligns with the outer membrane to form the typical double-membrane layered structure of mitochondria. The short tubular connection between the inner boundary and the cristae membrane is termed the cristae junction. The oligomerization of the F₁F_oATPase is believed to be critical for cristae tip formation by promoting positive curvature of the inner membrane.

The F₁F_oATPase exists primarily as a monomeric or homodimeric form (Arnold et al., 1998 blue right-pointing triangle

; Nijtmans et al., 1998 blue right-pointing triangle

; Wittig et al., 2008 blue right-pointing triangle

). Moreover, higher oligomeric states of the F₁F_oATPase homodimers were found in various organisms (Eubel et al., 2003 blue right-pointing triangle

; Krause et al., 2005 blue right-pointing triangle

; Thomas et al., 2008 blue right-pointing triangle

; De Los Rios Castillo et al., 2011 blue right-pointing triangle

). The F₁F_oATPase homodimers form ribbons in the cristae membrane, which influence the physical properties of the lipid bilayer (Strauss et al., 2008 blue right-pointing triangle

; Rabl et al., 2009 blue right-pointing triangle

; Davies et al., 2011 blue right-pointing triangle

In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, various proteins have been identified to act as dimerization factors for the F₁F_oATPase. The ATPase subunits g (Atp20), e (Atp21), k (Atp19), and i (Atp18) associate to the F_o portion of the monomers to mediate formation or stabilization of the dimeric form (Arnold et al., 1998 blue right-pointing triangle

; Paumard et al., 2002a blue right-pointing triangle

; Soubannier et al., 2002 blue right-pointing triangle

; Wagner et al., 2010 blue right-pointing triangle

). However, Atp20, Atp21, Atp19, and Atp18 are not essential for ATPase activity (Arnold et al., 1997 blue right-pointing triangle

, 1998

, 1999

; Vaillier et al., 1999 blue right-pointing triangle

; Rabl et al., 2009 blue right-pointing triangle

). Atp18, Atp20, and Atp21 are of low molecular weight (around 12 kDa) and contain predicted membrane-spanning regions (Arnold et al., 1997 blue right-pointing triangle

, 1998

; Soubannier et al., 2002 blue right-pointing triangle

; Paumard et al., 2002a blue right-pointing triangle

; Wagner et al., 2009 blue right-pointing triangle

, 2010

). Furthermore, subunits Atp20 and Atp21 contain a characteristic GxxxG motif in their transmembrane domain. Glycine-rich motives are believed to be important for helix–helix packing in the lipid bilayer (Russ and Engelman, 2000 blue right-pointing triangle

). In the case of Atp20 and Atp21, these motifs are considered to be critical to stabilize the interaction between F₁F_oATPase monomers (Arselin et al., 2003 blue right-pointing triangle

; Bustos and Velours, 2005 blue right-pointing triangle

; Saddar and Stuart, 2005 blue right-pointing triangle

The higher oligomeric states of the F₁F_oATPase are involved in maintaining mitochondrial ultrastructure by promoting membrane curvature and tubular cristae membrane formation (Giraud et al., 2002 blue right-pointing triangle

; Paumard et al., 2002b blue right-pointing triangle

; Gavin et al., 2004 blue right-pointing triangle

; Velours et al., 2009 blue right-pointing triangle

). Thus the absence of dimerization factors Atp20 and Atp21 leads to altered mitochondrial morphology called “onion-like structures” (Paumard et al., 2002b blue right-pointing triangle

; Arselin et al., 2004 blue right-pointing triangle

), referring to a layered arrangement of the inner membrane. Moreover, Atp20 has been shown to undergo posttranslational modification. Reversible phosphorylation of Atp20 switches its function, reflecting that the dimerization process is regulated in vivo (Reinders et al., 2007 blue right-pointing triangle

Proper ultrastructure of the mitochondrial inner membrane is dependent on an antagonism between Atp20/Atp21 and Fcj1 (formation of cristae junction 1). Fcj1 was suggested to affect mitochondrial cristae by destabilizing F₁F_oATPase oligomers (Rabl et al., 2009 blue right-pointing triangle

; Velours et al., 2009 blue right-pointing triangle

). Hence absence of Fcj1 increases the amount of F₁F_oATPase synthase oligomers and thus favors cristae tip over cristae junction formation (Rabl et al., 2009 blue right-pointing triangle

). This process appears to be conserved in mammals. Mitofilin, the mammalian homologue of Fcj1, and inner membrane proteins such as Opa1, MICS1, and CHCHD3 and F₁F_oATPase dimerization affect cristae and mitochondrial morphology through cristae junction formation and opening (Olichon et al., 2003 blue right-pointing triangle

; John et al., 2005 blue right-pointing triangle

; Frezza et al., 2006 blue right-pointing triangle

; Oka et al., 2008 blue right-pointing triangle

; Mun et al., 2010 blue right-pointing triangle

; Darshi et al., 2011 blue right-pointing triangle

; De Los Rios Castillo et al., 2011 blue right-pointing triangle

). Hence knockdown of Mitofilin leads to altered cristae morphology, exemplified by an overall change in mitochondrial inner membrane organization, decrease in cristae junctions, and formation of tubular cristae (John et al., 2005 blue right-pointing triangle

; Mun et al., 2010 blue right-pointing triangle

). Moreover, mitofilin has been found to associate with outer membrane protein complexes, thereby aiding attachment of cristae junctions to the outer membrane (Odgren et al., 1996 blue right-pointing triangle

; John et al., 2005 blue right-pointing triangle

; Xie et al., 2007 blue right-pointing triangle

Whereas dimerization and formation of higher oligomers of the F₁F_oATPase is well studied in yeast, insight is lacking on this process in higher eukaryotes. To identify novel F₁F_oATPase synthase oligomerization factors in human cells, we performed an in silico analysis and identified a conserved uncharacterized mitochondrial protein that we termed MINOS1. Detailed analyses revealed that human MINOS1 and its yeast orthologue Mio10 did not associate with the F₁F_oATPase. However, we show that MINOS1/Mio10 plays a central role in the maintenance of mitochondrial morphology as part of the mitofilin/Fcj1 complex.

RESULTS

Identification of MINOS1/Mio10

Assembly of the F₁F_oATPase into dimers and higher oligomers is critical for mitochondrial cristae formation in yeast mitochondria (Brunner et al., 2002 blue right-pointing triangle

; Arselin et al., 2004 blue right-pointing triangle

; Dudkina et al., 2006 blue right-pointing triangle

; Strauss et al., 2008 blue right-pointing triangle

; Rabl et al., 2009 blue right-pointing triangle

). The small membrane proteins Atp20 (subunit g) and Atp21 (subunit e; Tim11) are important for dimerization of the F₁F_oATPase and are characterized by the presence of a glycine-rich region. To identify potential novel oligomerization factors for the F₁F_oATPase in yeast and human we performed an in silico analysis for proteins with a molecular weight <12 kDa that had been localized to mitochondria in large-scale analyses (Sickmann et al., 2003 blue right-pointing triangle

; Reinders et al., 2006 blue right-pointing triangle

). This analysis revealed Atp20 and Atp21, as well as 17 uncharacterized proteins (Supplemental Figure S1A). Only two of the uncharacterized membrane proteins contained a glycine-rich segment and displayed significant sequence similarity to a human protein (Supplemental Figure S1B). Here we analyzed YCL057C-A (Mio10, Mos1, Mcs10), which displayed similarity with human C1orf151 (Figure 1A). We later refer to these proteins as Mio10 (yeast) and MINOS1 (human). Mio10 and MINOS1 are highly conserved among a large number of eukaryotes (Supplemental Figure S2).

FIGURE 1:

MINOS1 and Mio10 are conserved mitochondrial inner membrane proteins. (A) Alignment of Mio10 homologues (ClustalW 2.0.11). Black boxes indicate identical residues in at least four species; gray boxes indicate similar amino acids (Erdmann et al., 1991 (more ...)

Primary sequence analyses revealed that Mio10 and MINOS1 contain two predictable transmembrane segments separated by a short stretch of charged residues but lack an appreciable N-terminal presequence (Figure 1B). We therefore assessed whether MINOS1 was a mitochondrial protein by immunofluorescence microscopy. These analyses revealed a primarily mitochondrial localization pattern of MINOS1 in Vero cells that could be superimposed on the distribution of the mitochondrial marker cyclophilin D (Figure 1C). To address the submitochondrial localization of MINOS1, we performed biochemical fractionation analyses in HEK293T cells. MINOS1 was detected in purified human mitochondria by Western blotting (Figure 1D, lane 1, and Supplemental Figure S3A) and displayed resistance to protease treatment in mitochondria, whereas the outer membrane protein TOM70 was sensitive to the protease. However, MINOS1 became accessible to the protease when the outer membrane was disrupted by osmotic swelling (mitoplasts; Figure 1D). Thus MINOS1 behaved in similar way to the inner membrane protein TIM23, indicating that the protein was exposed to the intermembrane space (IMS). Because MINOS1 was predicted to be a membrane protein, we addressed its membrane association by alkaline extraction. As expected, MINOS1 was resistant to alkaline extraction, whereas peripheral membrane proteins such as TACO1 were efficiently released into the supernatant at high pH (Figure 1E). Thus we concluded that MINOS1 was an integral membrane protein of the inner membrane in human mitochondria.

For comparison, we addressed the localization of Mio10 in yeast by protease protection analyses of isolated mitochondria (Figure 1F and Supplemental Figure S3B). Similar to MINOS1, Mio10 remained protected against proteolysis in mitochondria but became accessible to the treatment in mitoplasts (Figure 1F). Because the antibody against Mio10 was directed against a C-terminal peptide, we concluded that the C-terminus was exposed to the intermembrane space. Moreover, similar to the human protein, Mio10 displayed resistance to alkaline extraction, indicating that it was an integral inner membrane protein. We concluded that MINOS1 and Mio10 are integral inner membrane proteins with their C-termini exposed to the IMS. Based on the prediction of two transmembrane-spanning regions, we suggest that they display a topology in which both termini localize to the intermembrane space.

MINOS1 is not stably associated with the F₁F_oATPase

We tested whether MINOS1 was associated with the F₁F_oATPase in the inner mitochondrial membrane. After solubilization of human mitochondria from HEK293T cells in digitonin-containing buffer, which maintains the protein complexes in their oligomeric state (Schägger et al., 1994 blue right-pointing triangle

; Nijtmans et al., 1998 blue right-pointing triangle

), we performed immunoprecipitation analyses with anti-F₁F_oATPase and anti–cytochrome c oxidase antiserum as a control. Both immunoprecipitations efficiently isolated the corresponding complexes, as indicated by the presence of COX1 and COX6A1 in the anti–cytochrome c oxidase and F1β in the anti-F₁F_oATPase precipitate. However, MINOS1 was not recovered in the immunoprecipitates (Figure 2A). Similarly, we tested whether Mio10 was associated with the F₁F_oATPase in yeast, using a ZZ tag on the Atp20 protein. Despite an efficient immunoprecipitation of the complex from digitonin-solubilized mitochondria (indicated by the presence of Atp5 in the eluate), we did not detect significant amounts of Mio10 in the precipitate (Figure 2B). Thus we concluded that MINOS1/Mio10 are not stably associated with the F₁F_oATPase in human or yeast mitochondria.

FIGURE 2:

MINOS1 and Mio10 are not associated with the F₁F₀ATPase. (A) Coimmunoprecipitation of cytochrome c oxidase (COX) and F₁F_oATPase from isolated HEK293T mitochondria after digitonin solubilization. Eluates were analyzed by SDS–PAGE and Western blotting. (more ...)

To address the function of Mio10 in mitochondria, we analyzed the growth behavior of a MIO10-deletion strain. mio10Δ cells displayed a growth defect on nonfermentable carbon sources, which was similar to that observed for atp20Δ cells but less than that with atp2Δ cells, which lack F₁F_oATPase function (Figure 2C). The growth defect of mio10Δ cells was not rescued by expression of MINOS1 (data not shown). We reasoned that the observed growth defect on nonfermentable carbon sources could be due to defective oxidative phosphorylation. Therefore we analyzed steady-state protein levels of mio10Δ mitochondria by Western blotting. However, we did not observe any significant differences compared with wild-type mitochondria with regard to the amount of the tested proteins except for Fcj1 (Figure 2D and Supplemental Figure S3C). Next we addressed the organization of respiratory chain complexes by blue-native PAGE analyses (BN-PAGE). Compared to wild type, mio10Δ mitochondria displayed similar amounts and organization of respiratory chain bc₁ complex (complexes III) and cytochrome c oxidase (complex IV) into supercomplexes (Figure 2E, lanes 1–4). Moreover, the ratio of F₁F_oATPase monomers to dimers was not affected (Figure 2E, lane 5 vs. lane 6). To assess higher oligomers of the F₁F_oATPase, we solubilized mitochondria in low concentration of digitonin, which maintain oligomers, and analyzed these by BN-PAGE (Rabl et al., 2009 blue right-pointing triangle

; Wagner et al., 2010 blue right-pointing triangle

). However, compared with wild-type mitochondria, no difference in the oligomerization of the F₁F_oATPase was observed for mio10Δ mitochondria (Supplemental Figure S3D). Hence we concluded that the observed growth defect of mio10Δ cells was not due to assembly defects of the oxidative phosphorylation system.

MINOS1 is a constituent of the mitofilin complex

Because no obvious defect in respiratory chain function or organization was detected, we analyzed mutant yeast cells for defects of mitochondrial morphology by live-cell imaging. Wild-type yeast cells expressing a mitochondria-localized green fluorescent protein (GFP) construct, pVT100U-mitoGFP (Westermann and Neupert, 2000 blue right-pointing triangle

), displayed a typical reticular mitochondrial network (Figure 3A and Supplemental Movie S1). Loss of Atp20 altered mitochondrial network morphology. atp20Δ mitochondria appeared to have largely lost the network structure but instead appeared fragmented with thickened mitochondria (Figure 3B and Supplemental Movie S2). In addition, in mio10Δ cells the mitochondrial network was frequently fragmented and also the mitochondria often exhibited an enlarged and flattened shape (Figure 3C and Supplemental Movie S3).

FIGURE 3:

Mitochondrial morphology is altered in mio10Δ. Fluorescence microscopy analysis of S. cerevisiae wild-type, atp20Δ, mio10Δ, and fcj1Δ (A–D) cells transformed with plasmid pVT100U-mitoGFP (Westermann and Neupert, (more ...)

Given the severity of the mitochondrial morphology phenotype, we aimed to identify interaction partners of Mio10 in yeast mitochondria. Therefore we generated a strain expressing Mio10 with a C-terminal streptavidin tag followed by a FLAG tag (SF) from the chromosomal locus. After solubilization of wild-type or Mio10^SF mitochondria, Mio10-containing complexes were isolated via Strep-Tactin-Sepharose chromatography. Isolated proteins were separated by SDS–PAGE (Figure 4A). Excised fragments covering the full Mio10^SF sample lane or corresponding sections of the control lane were subjected to in-gel digestion with trypsin (see Materials and Methods). The tryptic peptides were subsequently analyzed by high-resolution on-line liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). Specific interacting proteins were scored based on the normalized fold change calculated using a label-free spectral count approach. Among the proteins copurifying with Mio10^SF, we identified with highest score Fcj1, a protein required for mitochondrial inner membrane organization (Rabl et al., 2009 blue right-pointing triangle

). In addition to Fcj1, uncharacterized mitochondrial proteins such as YGR235C (Mio27, Mos2, Mcs29), Aim37, and Aim13 were identified as complex constituents with high spectral counts (Supplemental Table S1). To support the mass spectrometric data, we performed Western blot analyses of the purification. As expected, Fcj1 was specifically detected in the Mio10^SF eluate, whereas abundant mitochondria proteins, such as subunits of the oxidative phosphorylation system (e.g., Cox2, Atp5, Cyt1) were not recovered (Figure 4B). Similarly, when we purified Fcj1-ZZ-tag fusions from solubilized mitochondria, Mio10 was specifically copurified (data not shown). Next we subjected digitonin-solubilized mitochondrial fractions to gel filtration analyses. Fcj1 was detected in two protein complexes, in a low–molecular weight complex and in a large protein complex that appeared larger in size than the F₁F_oATPase (>1.2 MDa). Mio10 comigrated with Fcj1 in the gradient, further supporting their coexistence in a common complex that we refer to as the MINOS complex (mitochondrial inner membrane organizing system; Figure 4C). When comparing the growth behavior of mio10Δ cells to fcj1Δ cells, we found that both mutants displayed similar growth phenotypes on nonfermentable carbon sources. In both cases, growth defects drastically increased at low temperature (Figure 4D). Moreover, in vivo imaging of the mitochondrial network in mio10Δ and fcj1Δ cells revealed that they were comparable with regard to their altered mitochondrial morphology (Figure 3D and Supplemental Movie S4), supporting a functional relation.

FIGURE 4:

Mio10 and MINOS1 are part of the Fcj1/Mitofilin (MINOS) complex. (A) Isolated mitochondria from WT and Mio10-Streptavidin-FLAG (Mio10^SF) were solubilized and subjected to Strep-Tactin-Sepharose chromatography. Eluates were separated on SDS–PAGE (more ...)

Mitofilin is the human homologue of yeast Fcj1 and maintains mitochondrial cristae organization in human and Caenorhabditis elegans mitochondria (John et al., 2005 blue right-pointing triangle

; Xie et al., 2007 blue right-pointing triangle

; Mun et al., 2010 blue right-pointing triangle

). To address whether the interaction between Mio10 and Fcj1 was conserved in human, we isolated MINOS1-containing complexes from human HEK293T cells after metabolic labeling in culture (stable isotope labeling of amino acids in cell culture [SILAC]; Ong et al., 2002 blue right-pointing triangle

). To eliminate false-positive hits (and to have higher stringency in discriminating specific interactors from background proteins), we performed independent SILAC immunoprecipitations, switching the labeling scheme for the control cells and the cells subjected to immunoprecipitation with anti-MINOS1 antibodies (label-swap experiment). Following immunoprecipitation with anti-MINOS1, beads were washed and bound proteins eluted, and light and heavy eluates were mixed for each experiment. Proteins were separated by SDS–PAGE and subjected to in-gel digestion (Figure 4E). The resulting peptides were analyzed by high-resolution online LC-MS/MS. Mitofilin/MINOS2 was recovered in the immunoprecipitation and scored as a significant interactor. Similarly, MINOS3/CHCHD3, HSPA9, and DnaJC11, known interacting proteins of mitofilin (Xie et al., 2007 blue right-pointing triangle

; Darshi et al., 2011 blue right-pointing triangle

), were recovered in the precipitate with high confidence. Because antibodies against MINOS2/mitofilin, HSPA9, and MINOS3/CHCHD3 were available, we confirmed the mass spectrometric data by Western blotting (Figure 4G). All three proteins, MINOS2/mitofilin, HSPA9, and MINOS3/CHCHD3, were specifically enriched in MINOS1 immunoprecipitates, whereas other mitochondrial proteins, such as COX1 (cytochrome c oxidase), F1β (F₁F_oAPTase), and TIM23 (presequence translocase), were not detected (Figure 4F). Of interest, MINOS2/mitofilin has been reported to interact with the SAM complex of the outer mitochondrial membrane (Xie et al., 2007 blue right-pointing triangle

). In agreement, we found the outer mitochondrial membrane proteins Sam50 and metaxin 1 and 2 to coisolate with MINOS1, indicating that MINOS1 is part of a mitofilin-containing complex that associates with the outer membrane.

To address the size of the MINOS complex, we performed gel filtration analyses of solubilized mitochondrial extracts. MINOS1 and MINOS2/Mitofilin comigrated as a large protein complex in the gel filtration analyses and displayed an apparent molecular weight of approximately 1 MDa (Figure 4H). Accordingly, MINOS1 and Mio10 are conserved components of the MINOS complex in mitochondria.

Mio10 is required for cristae morphology maintenance

As MINOS2/mitofilin in human and Fcj1 in yeast are essential to maintain mitochondrial cristae morphology and inner boundary membrane formation, we compared mitochondrial cristae organization of mio10Δ, atp20Δ, and fcj1Δ cells by electron microscopy. Using high-pressure freezing to maintain cellular structure, we analyzed mutant and wild-type yeast cells for mitochondrial morphology. Although wild-type yeast cells display the typical cristae organization of the inner mitochondrial membrane, atp20Δ cells showed an onion-like organization of the inner membrane (Figure 5A) in agreement with previous observations (Paumard et al., 2002b blue right-pointing triangle

). Similar to atp20Δ cells, mio10Δ and fcj1Δ cells displayed a defect in inner mitochondrial membrane morphology and loss of cristae formation (Figure 5A). To address the magnitude of the defect, we performed a statistical analysis of the phenotype. We scored mitochondrial morphology into three classes (normal, intermediate, and onion-like; Figure 5B, right). atp20Δ, fcj1Δ, and mio10Δ cells were significantly affected for loss of mitochondrial cristae morphology, and >60% of mitochondria were scored as defective (Figure 5B).

FIGURE 5:

Cristae morphology is defective in mio10Δ. (A) Electron microscopy of S. cerevisiae WT, atp20Δ, mio10Δ, and fcj1Δ cells after high-pressure freezing (HPF). (B) Statistical analysis of different types of mitochondria based (more ...)

To visualize the mitochondrial membranes in more detail, we used a chemical fixation protocol (see Materials and Methods). In these sections atp20Δ cells showed the typical onion-like morphology of the inner membrane (Figure 5, C and D). Likewise, mio10Δ cells often exhibited an onion-like mitochondrial cristae organization. Furthermore, we observed a sheet-like arrangement of the inner membrane that is likely to represent a different structural organization of the inner membrane in these cells (Figure 5, C and D). A similar ultrastructure with stacked membrane sheets was observed in fcj1Δ cells (Figure 5, C and D). Previous work on fcj1Δ cells using tomography had indicated that these structures had lost cristae junction and were stacked by F₁F_oATPase dimers (Rabl et al., 2009 blue right-pointing triangle

). Thus we conclude that mio10Δ cells display a phenotype similar to atp20Δ and fcj1Δ cells. Therefore we refer to YCL057C-A as Mio10 for mitochondrial inner membrane organization complex constituent.

DISCUSSION

The mitochondrial inner membrane is highly organized with respect to its morphology. This organization also affects the distribution of mitochondrial protein complexes and thus function (Vogel et al., 2006 blue right-pointing triangle

; Wurm and Jakobs, 2006 blue right-pointing triangle

; Suppanz et al., 2009 blue right-pointing triangle

). It has been a challenge of the field of mitochondrial biogenesis to address how inner membrane compartmentation is regulated and to identify components that are involved in maintaining inner membrane morphology. Surprisingly, an enzyme of the oxidative phosphorylation system, the oligomeric F₁F_oATPase, has been found to play an important role for the organization of cristae (Giraud et al., 2002 blue right-pointing triangle

; Paumard et al., 2002b blue right-pointing triangle

; Gavin et al., 2004 blue right-pointing triangle

; Velours et al., 2009 blue right-pointing triangle

). Mutants defective in dimerization of the F₁F_oATPase due to lack of a dimerization factors such as Atp20 display severely altered mitochondrial inner membrane morphology (Paumard et al., 2002b blue right-pointing triangle

; Arselin et al., 2004 blue right-pointing triangle

Here we identified MINOS1 as a conserved protein of the mitochondrial inner membrane with a glycine-rich region reminiscent of Atp20. Previous work provided evidence that the GxxxG motif of Atp20 is involved in dimerization of Atp20 and thus promotes the process of F₁F_oATPase dimerization (Saddar and Stuart, 2005 blue right-pointing triangle

). However, although we found no evidence for a physical association between the human or yeast F₁F_oATPase with MINOS1 or Mio10, respectively, we identified a requirement for Mio10 in mitochondrial membrane organization. Cells lacking Mio10 displayed significantly altered mitochondrial morphology as judged by fluorescence live-cell imaging, as well as a loss of inner membrane organization. This finding is explained by the fact that human MINOS1 is a novel constituent of a large protein complex together with MINOS2/mitofilin now called the MINOS complex. In addition, other known interactors of MINOS2/mitofilin, such as MINOS3/CHCHD3, were identified in the complex. Similarly, the yeast counterpart, Mio10, is associated with Fcj1, the yeast orthologue of MINOS2/mitofilin. MINOS2/mitofilin, as well as Fcj1, was found necessary for cristae junction formation, and a loss of their function concomitantly leads to loss of typical cristae (John et al., 2005 blue right-pointing triangle

; Rabl et al., 2009 blue right-pointing triangle

). Thus, Mio10, as a component of the MINOS complex, is apparently similarly required for inner membrane organization and morphology.

We find that MINOS1 and MINOS2/Mitofilin cooperate in inner membrane organization in a common complex. Our mass spectrometric analyses suggest a number of additional constituents of the complexes in yeast and human. However, further analyses will be required to support their presence in the MINOS complex and the functional significance of the interaction. Given the size of the MINOS complexes of >1 MDa, it is tempting to speculate that the MINOS complexes could act as a physical scaffold for cristae junction formation (John et al., 2005 blue right-pointing triangle

; Rabl et al., 2009 blue right-pointing triangle

). The fact that we and others found that the human MINOS2/mitofilin complex copurifies with outer membrane proteins supports a role of the complex in contact-site formation (Xie et al., 2007 blue right-pointing triangle

). High-resolution immuno–electron microscopy will be required to address this idea in the future and to provide evidence for the function of the MINOS complex in this process.

While the manuscript for this article was under revision three publications appeared that similarly report on the identification of the yeast MINOS complex (Harner et al., 2011 blue right-pointing triangle

; Hoppins et al., 2011 blue right-pointing triangle

; von der Malsburg et al., 2011 blue right-pointing triangle

MATERIALS AND METHODS

Yeast strains and growth analysis

S. cerevisiae yeast strains used in this study were derivatives of either BY4741 or YPH499 (Sikorski and Hieter, 1989 blue right-pointing triangle

). The following yeast strains were used in this study: BY4741 (Mat a, his3-Δ1 leu2Δ0 met15Δ0 ura3Δ0); YPH499 (Mat a, ade2-101 his3-Δ200 leu2-Δ1 ura3-52 trp1-Δ63 lys2-801); mio10Δ (Mat a, his3-Δ1 leu2Δ0 met15Δ0 ura3Δ0; mio10::kanMX4) (Open Biosystems, Thermo Biosystems, Huntsville, AL); fcj1Δ (Mat a, his3-Δ1 leu2Δ0 met15Δ0 ura3Δ0; fcj1::kanMX4); atp20Δ (Mat a, his3-Δ1 leu2Δ0 met15Δ0 ura3Δ0; atp20::kanMX4); atp2Δ (Mat a, his3-Δ1 leu2Δ0 met15Δ0 ura3Δ0; atp2::kanMX4); YAA01 (Atp20^ZZ) (Mat a, ade2-101 his3-Δ200 leu2-Δ1 ura3-52 trp1-Δ63 lys2-801; atp20::ATP20-ZZ-HIS3MX6), YAA02 (Mio10-streptavidin-FLAG; SF) (Mat a, ade2-101 his3-Δ200 leu2-Δ1 ura3-52 trp1-Δ63 lys2-801; mio10::MIO10-SF-HIS3MX6). YAA02 was generated using a modified pYM2.1 vector; briefly, the streptavidin-FLAG tag from a pESG-IBA_168 (cut with XhoI and BglII) was ligated into the pYM2.1 (cut with SalI and BglII). Tagging of Mio10 (YCL057C-A) and Atp20 (YPR020W) was achieved using pYM2.1 and pYM10, respectively, as previously described (Knop et al., 1999 blue right-pointing triangle

; Janke et al., 2004 blue right-pointing triangle

Yeast growth tests were performed by adjusting cultured yeast to an OD₆₀₀ of 0.1 and spotting of serial dilutions onto agar plates containing 1% yeast extract, 2% peptone, 3% glycerol (YPG) or 1% yeast extract, 2% peptone, 2% glucose (YPD). Alternatively, plates containing synthetic medium were used: 0.67% yeast nitrogen base (Difco; BD, Franklin Lakes, NJ), 0.7 g/l dropout mix of CSM-URA (MP Biomedicals, Solon, OH), or 20 μg/ml of uracil) supplemented with 2% glucose (SD) or 3% glycerol (SG) (Reinhold et al., 2011 blue right-pointing triangle

Isolation of mitochondria

Yeast mitochondria were isolated by differential centrifugation from cells grown on YPG at 30°C or SG at 18°C according to Meisinger et al. (2006 blue right-pointing triangle

Human mitochondria were isolated from HEK293T cells cultured in DMEM containing 10% fetal bovine serum (Life Technologies, Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA) at 37°C and 5% CO₂ as previously described (Lazarou et al., 2009 blue right-pointing triangle

; Reinhold et al., 2011 blue right-pointing triangle

). In brief, cells were harvested at 80–85% confluency in 1× PBS and 1 mM EDTA and homogenized in 0.1% bovine serum albumin (BSA), 300 mM trehalose, 10 mM 4-(2-hydroxyethyl)-1-piperazineethanesulfonic acid–KOH, pH 7.7, 10 mM KCl, and 1 mM EDTA (Yamaguchi et al., 2007 blue right-pointing triangle

). Homogenized cells were subjected to centrifugation at 11,000 × g at 4°C for 10 min and the mitochondria-containing pellet concentrated in homogenization buffer without BSA.

HEK293T cells were grown in lysine- and arginine-deficient DMEM supplemented with 10% dialyzed fetal bovine serum. Light labeled medium was supplemented with normal isotope containing l-lysine and l-arginine; heavy labeled medium was supplemented with heavy isotope labeled ¹³C₆¹⁵N₂-lysine and ¹³C₆¹⁵N₄-arginine (Euriso-Top, Saarbrücken, Germany).

Protein localization analysis

Protease protection and membrane association analysis was performed as previously described (Mick et al., 2007 blue right-pointing triangle

). Swelling of isolated mitochondria was achieved by treatment in EM buffer (1 mM EDTA, 10 mM 3-(N-morpholino)propanesulfonic acid, pH 7.2) and mitochondria lysed with 1% Triton X-100. To test protein membrane association, isolated mitochondria were suspended in 0.1 M carbonate buffer at pH 10.8 or 11.5, or alternatively lysed with 1% Triton X-100. Samples were subjected to ultracentrifugation at 45,000 rpm for 45 min at 4°C in a TLA-55 rotor (Beckman Coulter, Brea, CA). Samples were trichloroacetic acid (TCA) precipitated and subjected to SDS–PAGE analysis.

Fluorescence microscopy

Immunofluorescence was performed as previously described (Wurm et al., 2010 blue right-pointing triangle

). Vero African green monkey (Cercopithecus aethiops) kidney epithelial cells grown on coverslips were fixed in 8% paraformaldehyde and permeabilized in 0.5% (vol/vol) Triton X-100. Treated cells were incubated for 1 h with C1orf151/MINOS1-antibody (rabbit) (Abcam, Cambridge, MA) and cyclophilin D antibody (mouse; Abcam) at a dilution of 1:400. After washing, cells were incubated with Oregon green 488–conjugated goat anti–mouse immunoglobulin G (IgG; 1:1000; Molecular Probes, Invitrogen) and KK114 (compound 6) conjugated goat anti–rabbit IgG (1:200; Kolmakov et al., 2010 blue right-pointing triangle

) for 1 h. After washing, 4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole staining was performed for 5 min and cells embedded in mounting medium. Fluorescence microscopy was performed with a beam scanning confocal microscope (TCS SP5; Leica Microsystems, Wetzlar, Germany) equipped with 1.4 numerical aperture oil immersion lenses (63×; HCX PL APO, Leica).

Yeast cells transformed with pVT100U-mitoGFP (Westermann and Neupert, 2000 blue right-pointing triangle

) were grown overnight in selective SGG medium (0.5 g/l yeast extract, 6.7 g/l yeast nitrogen base, 0.77 g/l CSM-URA dropout mix, 30 ml/l glycerol, 1 g/l glucose). Cells were directly used for fluorescence microscopy. Images were collected by using a DeltaVision microscope (Olympus IX71; Applied Precision, Issaquah, WA) and deconvolved by using Softworx, version 3.5.1 (Great Falls, MT).

Immunoprecipitation

Immunoprecipitation of human mitochondrial complexes was performed either with beads coupled with anti–complex IV antibodies or anti–complex V antibodies (Invitrogen). In case of MINOS1, C1orf151 antibodies were cross-linked to Protein A/G Agarose (Pierce, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Rockford, IL). One milligram of isolated mitochondria from HEK293T cells was solubilized in 1 ml of IP buffer (20 mM Tris, pH 7.4, 50 mM NaCl, 0.5 mM EDTA, 10% [wt/vol] glycerol, 1% [wt/vol] digitonin, 1 mM phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride [PMSF]) for 20 min on ice. Insoluble material was removed by centrifugation (14,000 rpm, 20 min, 4°C). Total sample were taken from the supernatant. The remaining supernatant was split into aliquots and incubated with the individual antibody-coupled beads for 1 h at 4°C on an end-over-end shaker. The nonbound proteins were removed by centrifugation (1000 × g, 1 min, 4°C) of the samples through a minicolumn fitted with a filter. The beads were washed 10 times with W buffer (20 mM Tris, pH7.4, 50 mM NaCl, 0.5 mM EDTA, 10% [wt/vol] glycerol, 0.3% [wt/vol] digitonin, 1 mM PMSF). Samples were eluted by adding 1× SDS sample buffer.

Isolation of yeast protein complexes was performed using Atp20^ZZ and Mio10^SF strains essentially as previously described (Geissler et al., 2002 blue right-pointing triangle

). Isolated mitochondria were solubilized in IP buffer. After centrifugation at 14,000 rpm for 20 min the resulting supernatants were incubated either with IgG-Sepharose or Strep-Tactin-Sepharose (IBA, Göttingen, Germany) for 1 h at 4°C on an end-over-end shaker. Unbound material was removed by transfer of the beads into minicolumns and centrifugation at 100 × g for 1 min. The beads were washed 10 times with 20× bead volume. Atp20^zz complexes were eluted by adding 1× SDS sample buffer. Elution of the Mio10-SF complexes was achieved by adding DB buffer (5 mM desthio-biotin, 20 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.4, 30 mM NaCl, 0.2 mM EDTA). Mio10-SF-eluates were concentrated with StrataClean (Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA).

Mass spectrometry and data analysis

Eluted proteins were separated on 4–12% gradient SDS–PAGE gels (Invitrogen) and stained with colloidal Coomassie blue. Each gel lane was cut into 23 equal gel slices, and proteins therein were in-gel digested with trypsin (Promega, Madison, WI) as described previously (Shevchenko et al., 2006 blue right-pointing triangle

). Tryptic peptides from each gel slice were analyzed by nanoflow high-performance liquid chromatography (Agilent 1100, Agilent Technologies) coupled to a nanoelectrospray LTQ-Orbitrap XL mass spectrometer (Thermo Fischer Scientific). For yeast immunoprecipitations, the raw mass spectrometer files were searched and analyzed with Mascot (Mascot Deamon, version 2.2.2; Matrix Science, Boston, MA) and Scaffold 3 (Proteome Software, Portland, OR) using the National Center for Biotechnology Information nonredundant S. cerevisiae protein database. Normalized fold change ratios were calculated in Scaffold using the spectral count approach (Liu et al., 2004 blue right-pointing triangle

). For the SILAC analyses of MINOS1 immunoprecipitations, the raw MS files from the mass spectrometer were analyzed by MaxQuant (Cox and Mann, 2008 blue right-pointing triangle

) and Mascot using the IPI–International Protein Index human protein database, version 3.82. Results from MaxQuant were analyzed and visualized with R as described previously (Nikolov et al., 2011 blue right-pointing triangle

Size exclusion chromatography

Gel filtration of human and yeast solubilized mitochondrial protein complexes were performed with an ÄKTApurifier system (GE Healthcare, Piscataway, NJ). Therefore 200 μg of isolated mitochondria was solubilized in 200 μl of GF-buffer (20 mM Tris, pH7.4, 50 mM NaCl, 0.5 mM EDTA, 10% [wt/vol] glycerol, 1% [wt/vol] digitonin, 1 mM PMSF) for 20 min on ice. Insoluble material was removed by centrifugation. The supernatants were loaded on a Superose 6 10/300 GL (GE Healthcare) equilibrated with GL buffer (20 mM Tris, pH7.4, 50 mM NaCl, 0.5 mM EDTA, 10% [wt/vol] glycerol, 0.1% [wt/vol] digitonin). The resulting fractions were precipitated with TCA and washed with acetone. Dried samples were resolved in 1× SDS sample buffer and used for SDS–PAGE.

Electron microscopy

For high-pressure-freezing, budding yeast cells were grown at 30°C in liquid YP lactate medium (10 g/l yeast extract, 20 g/l peptone from casein, 23 ml/l L(+)-lactic acid solution [85%], 0.02 g/l uracil, 0.02 g/l adenine sulfate) and harvested during the logarithmic growth phase. Cells were transferred onto a 150-μm aluminum planchette and vitrified in a Leica HPM100 high-pressure freezer. The vitrified specimens were embedded using a freeze substitution unit (Leica EM AFS) in 0.5% glutaraldehyde, 0.1% uranyl acetate, and 5% H₂O (Giddings, 2003 blue right-pointing triangle

). After warming of the samples to room temperature the pellet was removed from the planchette, embedded in epoxide resin (Agar 100; Plano, Wetzlar, Germany), and polymerized at +80°C for 48 h. Thin sections (60 nm) were counterstained with 1% uranyl acetate in methanol and lead citrate and examined using a Philips CM 120 BioTwin transmission electron microscope (Philips, Eindhoven, Netherlands).

Chemical fixation

Chemical fixation was performed as previously described (Erdmann et al., 1989 blue right-pointing triangle

). Yeast cells grown for 12 h at 18°C in liquid SGG medium were fixed in 1.5% potassium permanganate for 20 min at room temperature, poststained for 2 h with 1% uranyl acetate, and dehydrated in a graded ethanol series and embedded in Epon 812. Ultrathin sections were mounted on Formvar-coated single-hole grids and examined in a Philips EM 300.

Miscellaneous

Protein complexes were analyzed by blue native electrophoresis as previously described (Schägger et al., 1994 blue right-pointing triangle

; Dekker et al., 1997 blue right-pointing triangle

). In-gel ATPase activity was performed essentially as previously described (Bornhövd et al., 2006 blue right-pointing triangle

; Wagner et al., 2010 blue right-pointing triangle

). Standard techniques were used for SDS electrophoresis and Western blot analyses. Protein-antibody signals were detected by enhanced chemiluminescence (GE Healthcare). In silico analysis was performed using the Saccharomyces Genome Database. Multiple sequence alignment of Mio10/MINOS1 was performed with ClustalW 2.0.11 (Chenna et al., 2003 blue right-pointing triangle

). TMpred (Hofmann and Stoffel, 1993 blue right-pointing triangle

) was used for transmembrane predictions.

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Acknowledgments

We thank R. Jahn and M. Zweckstetter for helpful discussions. This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, SFB860, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Research Center for Molecular Physiology of the Brain (to S.J.), the Forschungsförderungsprogramm of the University Medical Center Göttingen (M.D.), and the Max-Planck-Society (S.J., H.U.).

Abbreviations used:


BN-PAGE	blue native-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis

CoIP	coimmunoprecipitation

COX	cytochrome c oxidase

GFP	green fluorescent protein

HPF	high-pressure freezing

IMS	intermembrane space

LC/MS/MS	liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry

MINOS	mitochondrial inner membrane organization system

MIO	mitochondrial inner membrane organization

SF	streptavidin-FLAG

SILAC	stable isotope labeling with amino acids in cell culture

TCA	trichloroacetic acid

TX-100	Triton X-100

Footnotes

This article was published online ahead of print in MBoC in Press (http://www.molbiolcell.org/cgi/doi/10.1091/mbc.E11-09-0774) on November 23, 2011.

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