PMID: 8943003Nov 26, 1996Paper

Steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR) retains activity in the absence of its mitochondrial import sequence: implications for the mechanism of StAR action

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
F ArakaneJ F Strauss

Abstract

Steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR) plays a critical role in steroid hormone biosynthesis, presumably by facilitating the delivery of cholesterol to P450scc in the inner mitochondrial membranes. StAR is synthesized as a 37-kDa preprotein that is processed to a 30-kDa mature form by cleavage of an N-terminal mitochondrial import sequence. To identify structural features required for StAR biological activity, we mutated the human StAR cDNA, including the deletion of N- and C-terminal sequences, and examined the ability of the mutants to promote steroidogenesis and enter the mitochondria of transfected COS-1 cells. Deletion of up to 62 residues from the N terminus (N-62) did not significantly affect steroidogenesis-enhancing activity. The N-terminal deletion mutants were associated with mitochondria-enriched fractions, but import and processing were progressively impaired with increasing length of the deletion. Immunogold electron microscopy and in vitro import assays showed that the active N-62 mutant was not imported into the mitochondria. Removal of the 28 C-terminal amino acids (C-28) inactivated StAR. Deletion of the C-terminal 10 amino acids (C-10) reduced steroidogenic activity by 53%, while truncation of the last...Continue Reading

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