OVARIAN ADENOCARCINOMAS EXPRESS MEMBERS OF DIFFERENT CYTOKINE PATHWAYS - ANALYSIS AND QUANTIFICATION OF TRANSCRIPTS FROM THE TGF-ALPHA AND M-CSF FMS PATHWAYS AND THE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CJUN

Author(s):  
T BAUKNECHT ◽  
M KIECHLESCHWARZ ◽  
F KOMMOSS ◽  
J WOLFLE ◽  
G BIRMELIN ◽  
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2015 ◽  
Vol 210 (3) ◽  
pp. 435-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine L. Nezich ◽  
Chunxin Wang ◽  
Adam I. Fogel ◽  
Richard J. Youle

The kinase PINK1 and ubiquitin ligase Parkin can regulate the selective elimination of damaged mitochondria through autophagy (mitophagy). Because of the demand on lysosomal function by mitophagy, we investigated a role for the transcription factor EB (TFEB), a master regulator of lysosomal biogenesis, in this process. We show that during mitophagy TFEB translocates to the nucleus and displays transcriptional activity in a PINK1- and Parkin-dependent manner. MITF and TFE3, homologues of TFEB belonging to the same microphthalmia/transcription factor E (MiT/TFE) family, are similarly regulated during mitophagy. Unlike TFEB translocation after starvation-induced mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 inhibition, Parkin-mediated TFEB relocalization required Atg9A and Atg5 activity. However, constitutively active Rag guanosine triphosphatases prevented TFEB translocation during mitophagy, suggesting cross talk between these two MiT/TFE activation pathways. Analysis of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats–generated TFEB/MITF/TFE3/TFEC single, double, and triple knockout cell lines revealed that these proteins partly facilitate Parkin-mediated mitochondrial clearance. These results illuminate a pathway leading to MiT/TFE transcription factor activation, distinct from starvation-induced autophagy, which occurs during mitophagy.


Author(s):  
David P. Bazett-Jones ◽  
Mark L. Brown

A multisubunit RNA polymerase enzyme is ultimately responsible for transcription initiation and elongation of RNA, but recognition of the proper start site by the enzyme is regulated by general, temporal and gene-specific trans-factors interacting at promoter and enhancer DNA sequences. To understand the molecular mechanisms which precisely regulate the transcription initiation event, it is crucial to elucidate the structure of the transcription factor/DNA complexes involved. Electron spectroscopic imaging (ESI) provides the opportunity to visualize individual DNA molecules. Enhancement of DNA contrast with ESI is accomplished by imaging with electrons that have interacted with inner shell electrons of phosphorus in the DNA backbone. Phosphorus detection at this intermediately high level of resolution (≈lnm) permits selective imaging of the DNA, to determine whether the protein factors compact, bend or wrap the DNA. Simultaneously, mass analysis and phosphorus content can be measured quantitatively, using adjacent DNA or tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) as mass and phosphorus standards. These two parameters provide stoichiometric information relating the ratios of protein:DNA content.


Nephrology ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. A92-A92
Author(s):  
Takazoe K ◽  
Foti R ◽  
Hurst La ◽  
Atkins Rc ◽  
Nikolic‐Paterson DJ.

2001 ◽  
Vol 120 (5) ◽  
pp. A31-A31
Author(s):  
H KATAOKA ◽  
T JOH ◽  
T OHSHIMA ◽  
Y ITOH ◽  
K SENOO ◽  
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