MitoCarta3.0: an updated mitochondrial proteome now with sub-organelle localization and pathway annotations
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The mammalian mitochondrial proteome is under dual genomic control, with 99% of proteins encoded by the nuclear genome and 13 originating from the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). We previously developed MitoCarta, a catalogue of over 1000 genes encoding the mammalian mitochondrial proteome. This catalogue was compiled using a Bayesian integration of multiple sequence features and experimental datasets, notably protein mass spectrometry of mitochondria isolated from fourteen murine tissues. Here, we introduce MitoCarta3.0. Beginning with the MitoCarta2.0 inventory, we performed manual review to remove 100 genes and introduce 78 additional genes, arriving at an updated inventory of 1136 human genes. We now include manually curated annotations of sub-mitochondrial localization (matrix, inner membrane, intermembrane space, outer membrane) as well as assignment to 149 hierarchical ‘MitoPathways’ spanning seven broad functional categories relevant to mitochondria. MitoCarta3.0, including sub-mitochondrial localization and MitoPathway annotations, is freely available at http://www.broadinstitute.org/mitocarta and should serve as a continued community resource for mitochondrial biology and medicine.
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MitoCarta 3.0 was used to identify mitochondrial-specific proteins in the isolated brain mitochondria samples.
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- Rath, S., Sharma, R., Gupta, R., Ast, T., Chan, C., Durham, T. J., Goodman, R. P., Grabarek, Z., Haas, M. E., Hung, W. H. W., Joshi, P. R., Jourdain, A. A., Kim, S. H., Kotrys, A. V., Lam, S. S., McCoy, J. G., Meisel, J. D., Miranda, M., Panda, A., Patgiri, A., Rogers, R., Sadre, S., Shah, H., Skinner, O. S., To, T.-L., Walker, M. A., Wang, H., Ward, P. S., Wengrod, J., Yuan, C.-C., Calvo, S. E., & Mootha, V. K.
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
- Corresponding author
- Calvo, Sarah E
- Mootha, Vamsi K
- ORCID
- Rath, Sneha
- Sharma, Rohit
- Gupta, Rahul
- Ast, Tslil
- Durham, Timothy J
- Goodman, Russell P
- Grabarek, Zenon
- Jourdain, Alexis A
- Kotrys, Anna V
- Lam, Stephanie S
- McCoy, Jason G
- Meisel, Joshua D
- Miranda, Maria
- Panda, Apekshya
- Patgiri, Anupam
- Sadre, Shayan
- Shah, Hardik
- Skinner, Owen S
- To, Tsz-Leung
- Walker, Melissa A
- Ward, Patrick S
- Calvo, Sarah E
- Mootha, Vamsi K
- Venue
- Nucleic Acids Research
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- Oxford University Press (OUP)
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- 2020-11-11
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- 49
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- D1
- Pages
- D1541-D1547
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- 0305-1048 (ISSN-L)
- 1362-4962
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- PMC7778944
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- National Institutes of Health (K00CA212468, T32AG000222, K08DK115881, R01AR071942, F32GM128259, F32GM133047, T32DK007028, R35GM122455)
- Jane Coffin Childs
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (431313887)
- Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Neurology
- Dollis Huntington Endowment Fund for Cancer Research
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
- Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Spectroscopy › Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications
- Keywords
- mitochondrial proteome, mitochondrial DNA-encoded proteins, nuclear-encoded mitochondrial proteins, human genes, mitochondrial biology
- MeSH terms
- Machine Learning, Animals, Bayes Theorem, DNA, Mitochondrial, Humans, Mitochondria, Software, Mass Spectrometry, Internet, Proteome, Mitochondrial Proteins, Databases, Protein, Mitochondrial Membranes, Mice, Molecular Sequence Annotation, Datasets as Topic
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