Nucleic Acids Research Advance Access originally published online on June 8, 2007
Nucleic Acids Research 2007 35(12):4042-4054; doi:10.1093/nar/gkm424
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Nucleic Acids Research, 2007, Vol. 35, No. 12 4042-4054
© 2007 The Author(s)
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Relative abundance of the human mitochondrial transcription system and distinct roles for h-mtTFB1 and h-mtTFB2 in mitochondrial biogenesis and gene expression
1Graduate Program in Genetics and Molecular Biology, Emory University School of Medicine, 440 Clifton Road N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30322 and 2Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, 310 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8023, USA
To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: 203 785 2475; Fax: 203 785 2628; Email: gerald.shadel{at}yale.edu
Received February 10, 2007. Revised May 8, 2007. Accepted May 8, 2007.
Human mitochondrial transcription requires the bacteriophage-related RNA polymerase, POLRMT, the mtDNA-binding protein, h-mtTFA/TFAM, and two transcription factors/rRNA methyltransferases, h-mtTFB1 and h-mtTFB2. Here, we determined the steady-state levels of these core transcription components and examined the consequences of purposeful elevation of h-mtTFB1 or h-mtTFB2 in HeLa cells. On a per molecule basis, we find an 
6-fold excess of POLRMT to mtDNA and 3-fold more h-mtTFB2 than h-mtTFB1. We also estimate h-mtTFA at 50 molecules/mtDNA, a ratio predicted to support robust transcription, but not to coat mtDNA. Consistent with a role for h-mtTFB2 in transcription and transcription-primed replication, increased mitochondrial DNA and transcripts result from its over-expression. This is accompanied by increased translation rates of most, but not all mtDNA-encoded proteins. Over-expression of h-mtTFB1 did not significantly influence these parameters, but did result in increased mitochondrial biogenesis. Furthermore, h-mtTFB1 mRNA and protein are elevated in response to h-mtTFB2 over-expression, suggesting the existence of a retrograde signal to the nucleus to coordinately regulate expression of these related factors. Altogether, our results provide a framework for understanding the regulation of human mitochondrial transcription in vivo and define distinct roles for h-mtTFB1 and h-mtTFB2 in mitochondrial biogenesis and gene expression that together likely fine-tune mitochondrial function.
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