Abstract
Plastids are organelles playing fundamental roles in different cellular processes such as energy metabolism or lipid biosynthesis. To fulfill their biogenesis and their function in the cell, plastids have to communicate with other cellular compartments. This communication can be mediated by the establishment of direct contact sites between plastids envelop and other organelles. These contacts are dynamic structures regulated in response to stress. For example, during phosphate (Pi) starvation, the number of contact sites between plastids and mitochondria significantly increases. In this situation, these contacts play an important role in the transfer of galactoglycerolipids from plastids to mitochondria. Recently, Pi starvation stress was used to identify key proteins involved in the traffic of galactoglycerolipids from plastids to mitochondria in Arabidopsis thaliana. A mitochondrial lipoprotein complex called MTL (Mitochondrial Transmembrane Lipoprotein) was identified. This complex contains mitochondrial proteins but also proteins located in the plastid envelope, suggesting its presence at the plastid-mitochondria junction. This chapter describes the protocol to isolate the MTL complex by clear-native polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (CN-PAGE) from the mitochondrial fraction of Arabidopsis cell cultures and the methods to study different features of this complex.
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This work is supported by the French National Research Agency French National Research Agency (GRAL Labex ANR-10-LABEX-04, EUR CBS ANR-17-EURE-0003, JCJC MiCoSLiT ANR-19-C13–0013).
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Michaud, M. (2024). Analysis of a Super-Complex at Contact Sites Between Mitochondria and Plastids. In: Maréchal, E. (eds) Plastids. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2776. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-3726-5_9
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