MCART1 is required for mitochondrial NAD transport
Kory, N.; uit de Bos, J.; van der Rijt, S.; Jankovic, N.; Guera, M.; Arp, N.; Pena, I. A.; Prakash, G.; Chan, S. H.; Kunchok, T.; Lewis, C. A.; Sabatini, D. M.
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The nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+/NADH) pair is a cofactor in redox reactions and is particularly critical in mitochondria as it connects substrate oxidation by the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle to ATP generation by the electron transport chain (ETC) and oxidative phosphorylation. While a mitochondrial NAD+ transporter has been identified in yeast, how NAD enters mitochondria in higher eukaryotes is unknown. Here, we mine gene essentiality data from human cell lines to identify MCART1 (SLC25A51) as co-essential with ETC components. MCART1-null cells have large decreases in TCA cycle flux, mitochondrial respiration, ETC complex I activity, and mitochondrial levels of NAD+ and NADH. Isolated mitochondria from cells lacking or overexpressing MCART1 have greatly decreased or increased NAD uptake in vitro, respectively. Moreover, MCART1 and NDT1, a yeast mitochondrial NAD+ transporter, can functionally complement for each other. Thus, we propose that MCART1 is the long sought mitochondrial transporter for NAD in human cells.
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