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CELL REPORTS
Volume 11, Issue 4, Pages 657-670Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2015.03.057
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- NIH [GM092930, DK102910, CA103175, DK089502, DK073368, CA174423]
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan [26440056]
- Japan Science and Technology Agency [10216]
- Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26440056] Funding Source: KAKEN
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AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK), whose activity is a critical determinant of cell health, serves a fundamental role in integrating extracellular and intracellular nutrient information into signals that regulate various metabolic processes. Despite the importance of AMPK, its specific roles within the different intracellular spaces remain unresolved, largely due to the lack of real-time, organelle-specific AMPK activity probes. Here, we present a series of molecular tools that allows for the measurement of AMPK activity at the different subcellular localizations and that allows for the rapid induction of AMPK inhibition. We discovered that AMPK alpha 1, not AMPK alpha 2, was the subunit that preferentially conferred spatial specificity to AMPK, and that inhibition of AMPK activity at the mitochondria was sufficient for triggering cytosolic ATP increase. These findings suggest that genetically encoded molecular probes represent a powerful approach for revealing the basic principles of the spatiotemporal nature of AMPK regulation.
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