Our research explores the regulation of mitochondrial protein synthesis and its connection to inner membrane assembly, crucial for oxidative phosphorylation. Using the model, we study the molecular mechanism of mitochondrial function, leveraging its suitability for detailed molecular and genetic investigations. Many technologies are used for research in our field, like RNA deep sequencing, multiomic technologies, cryo-electron microscopy, high-velocity bombardment to transform gene mitochondria, among others.
We have made important contributions to understand the role and mechanisms of action of many proteins involved in mitochondrial translation regulation and on respiratory complexes III and IV assembly. This is the case for proteins like Mss51, Pet309, Pet54, mS38, CPP3, CPP6, among others. This protocol is an indispensable tool for understanding how mitoribosomes find the STARD-CHOL mitochondrial mRNAs.
It has been the key to understanding the role of specific nucleotides of mitochondrial mRNAs in translation regulation. These are some examples of what this technique can address. The only available resource to mitochondrial sequences and to use translation of the in the mitochondrial DNA is our protocol, high-velocity bombardment transformation of gene mitochondria.
This method has provided invaluable information regarding translation and respiratory complexes assembly that otherwise we could not obtain.
