Role of mitochondria in the pheromone- and amiodarone-induced programmed death of yeast.
Role of mitochondria in the pheromone- and amiodarone-induced programmed death of yeast.
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线粒体在信息素酮和胺碘酮诱导的酵母死亡中的作用。
DOI:
10.1083/jcb.200408145
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发表时间:
2005-01-17
影响因子:
7.8
通讯作者:
Severin, Fedor F
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作者:
Pozniakovsky, Andrei I;Knorre, Dmitry A;Markova, Olga V;Hyman, Anthony A;Skulachev, Vladimir P;Severin, Fedor F
Although programmed cell death (PCD) is extensively studied in multicellular organisms, in recent years it has been shown that a unicellular organism, yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, also possesses death program(s). In particular, we have found that a high doses of yeast pheromone is a natural stimulus inducing PCD. Here, we show that the death cascades triggered by pheromone and by a drug amiodarone are very similar. We focused on the role of mitochondria during the pheromone/amiodarone-induced PCD. For the first time, a functional chain of the mitochondria-related events required for a particular case of yeast PCD has been revealed: an enhancement of mitochondrial respiration and of its energy coupling, a strong increase of mitochondrial membrane potential, both events triggered by the rise of cytoplasmic [Ca2+], a burst in generation of reactive oxygen species in center o of the respiratory chain complex III, mitochondrial thread-grain transition, and cytochrome c release from mitochondria. A novel mitochondrial protein required for thread-grain transition is identified.