Transcript levels for nuclear‐encoded mammalian mitochondrial respiratory‐chain components are regulated by thyroid hormone in an uncoordinated fashion
- 1 July 1992
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Biochemistry
- Vol. 207 (1), 247-251
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1432-1033.1992.tb17044.x
Abstract
Thyroid hormone is one of the few known physiological regulators of mammalian mitochondrial biogenesis. Although it exerts a global effect on biogenesis, it does so by regulating the expression of a limited number of unidentified mitochondrial proteins. We have investigated these hormone-regulated proteins in rat liver. Hormone injection induced a 30-fold increase in the levels of cytochrome-c1 mRNA after 3 d. In addition, the mRNA for the growth-activated adenine-nucleotide translocator, ANT2, was increased 13-fold and that for the ATPase N,N'-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide-binding protein increased 4-5-fold. Mitochondrial transcripts of cytochrome-oxidase subunit I also increased. No changes were found in the mRNA levels for the F1-ATPase beta-subunit or cytochrome oxidase IV. A single low dose of triiodothyronine induces rapid increases in cytochrome-c1 and ANT2 mRNA species which parallel changes in the activity of the hormone-responsive malic enzyme, but are earlier than other mitochondrial biogenetic events. These data strengthen the view that thyroid hormone regulates synthesis of specific components within each respiratory-chain complex and that these products apparently play key roles in inner-membrane biogenesis and assembly. The significance of ANT2 induction is also discussed with respect to the rapid respiratory response induced by thyroid hormone.Keywords
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