PMID- 19137259 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20090323 LR - 20171116 IS - 1420-9071 (Electronic) IS - 1420-682X (Linking) VI - 66 IP - 4 DP - 2009 Feb TI - Transient and constitutive repression of cytoplasmic translation signaling in cells with mtDNA mutation. PG - 721-30 LID - 10.1007/s00018-009-8687-4 [doi] AB - Cytoplasmic translation is under sophisticated control but how cells adapt its rate to constitutive loss of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation is unknown. Here we show that translation is repressed in cells with the pathogenic A3243G mtDNA mutation or in mtDNA-less rho(0) cells by at least two distinct pathways, one transiently targeting elongation factor eEF-2 and the other initiation factor eIF-2alpha constitutively. Under conditions of exponential cell growth and mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) activation, eEF-2 becomes transiently phosphorylated by an AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK)-dependent pathway, especially high in mutant cells. Independent of AMPK and mTOR, eIF-2alpha is constitutively phosphorylated in mutant cells, likely a signature of endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-stress response induced by the loss of oxidative phosphorylation. While the AMPK/eEF-2K/eEF-2 pathway appears to function in adaptation to physiological fluctuations in ATP levels in the mutant cells, the ER stress signified by constitutive protein synthesis inhibition through eIF-2alpha-mediated repression of translation initiation may have pathobiochemical consequences. FAU - Janssen, G M C AU - Janssen GM AD - Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands. G.M.C.Janssen@lumc.nl FAU - Schwertman, P AU - Schwertman P FAU - Wanga, T A T AU - Wanga TA FAU - Tafrechi, R S Jahangir AU - Tafrechi RS FAU - van den Broek, P J A AU - van den Broek PJ FAU - Raap, A K AU - Raap AK LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - Switzerland TA - Cell Mol Life Sci JT - Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS JID - 9705402 RN - 0 (DNA, Mitochondrial) RN - 0 (Uncoupling Agents) RN - EC 2.7.11.31 (AMP-Activated Protein Kinases) SB - IM MH - AMP-Activated Protein Kinases/metabolism MH - Cells, Cultured MH - Cytoplasm/*metabolism MH - DNA, Mitochondrial/*genetics/metabolism MH - Fibroblasts/cytology/physiology MH - Humans MH - *Mutation MH - Oxidative Phosphorylation MH - *Protein Biosynthesis MH - Signal Transduction/*physiology MH - Uncoupling Agents/metabolism EDAT- 2009/01/13 09:00 MHDA- 2009/03/24 09:00 CRDT- 2009/01/13 09:00 PHST- 2009/01/13 09:00 [entrez] PHST- 2009/01/13 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2009/03/24 09:00 [medline] AID - 10.1007/s00018-009-8687-4 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Cell Mol Life Sci. 2009 Feb;66(4):721-30. doi: 10.1007/s00018-009-8687-4.