Journal
FEBS JOURNAL
Volume 276, Issue 16, Pages 4325-4333Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2009.07133.x
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cAMP cascade; complex I; CREB; mitochondrial protein synthesis; PKA
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- Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universit e della Ricerca (MIUR), Italy
- University of Bari
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The cAMP response element-binding protein (CREB) is a ubiquitous transcription factor in the higher eukaryotes that, once phosphorylated, promotes transcription of cAMP response element-regulated genes. We have studied the mitochondrial import of CREB and its effect on the expression of mtDNA-encoded proteins. [S-35]Methionine-labelled CREB, synthesized in vitro in the Rabbit Reticulocyte Lysate system using a construct of the human cDNA, was imported into the matrix of isolated rat liver mitochondria by a membrane potential and TOM complex-dependent process. The imported CREB caused cAMP-dependent promotion of the synthesis of mitochondrially encoded subunits of oxidative phosphorylation enzyme complexes. Thus, CREB moves from the cytosol to mitochondria, in addition to the nucleus, and, when phosphorylated by cAMP-dependent protein kinase, promotes the expression of mitochondrial genes.
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