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MITOCHONDRION
Volume 7, Issue 6, Pages 374-385Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.mito.2007.08.001
Keywords
mitochondria; mtDNA; biogenesis; protein kinase C; calcium; signaling; AMP-activated protein kinase; mTOR; rapamycin; lonomycin; membrane potential; oxidative phosphorylation; T cell; cytokine; T cell receptor
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- NIAID NIH HHS [R01 AI066232] Funding Source: Medline
- NIEHS NIH HHS [P01 ES011163, P01 ES011163-01A10001] Funding Source: Medline
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The quantity and activity of mitochondria vary dramatically in tissues and are modulated in response to changing cellular energy demands and environmental factors. The amount of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), which encodes essential subunits of the oxidative phosphorylation complexes required for cellular ATP production, is also tightly regulated, but by largely unknown mechanisms. Using murine T cells as a model system, we have addressed how specific signaling pathways influence mitochondrial biogenesis and mtDNA copy number. T cell receptor (TCR) activation results in a large increase in mitochondrial mass and membrane potential and a corresponding amplification of mtDNA, consistent with a vital role for mitochondrial function for growth and proliferation of these cells. Independent activation of protein kinase C (via PMA) or calcium-related pathways (via ionomycin) had differential and sub-maximal effects on these mitochondrial parameters, as did activation of naive T cells with proliferative cytokines. Thus, the robust mitochondrial biogenesis response observed upon TCR activation requires synergy of multiple downstream signaling pathways. One such pathway involves AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK), which we show has an unprecedented role in negatively regulating mitochondrial biogenesis that is mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR)-dependent. That is, inhibition of AMPK after TCR signaling commences results in excessive, but uncoordinated mitochondrial proliferation. Thus mitochondrial biogenesis is not under control of a single master regulatory circuit, but rather requires the convergence of multiple signaling pathways with distinct downstream consequences on the organelle's structure, composition, and function. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. and Mitochondria Research Society. All rights reserved.
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