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ArticleCell stress2020

HIF1α-dependent mitophagy facilitates cardiomyoblast differentiation.

Jin-Feng Zhao, Catherine E Rodger, George F G Allen, Simone Weidlich, Ian G Ganley

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Article in Cell stress, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers.

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42citing papers in PubMed
5.1field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

42 citing papers in PubMed, 59 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jin-Feng ZhaoMRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 5EH, UK.
Catherine E RodgerMRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 5EH, UK.
George F G AllenMRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 5EH, UK.
Simone WeidlichMRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 5EH, UK.
Ian G GanleyMRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 5EH, UK.
MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit · GBUniversity of Dundee · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_UU_00018/2
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mitophagy is thought to play a key role in eliminating damaged mitochondria, with diseases such as cancer and neurodegeneration exhibiting defects in this process. Mitophagy is also involved in cell differentiation and maturation, potentially through modulating mitochondrial metabolic reprogramming. Here we examined mitophagy that is induced upon iron chelation and found that the transcriptional activity of HIF1α, in part through upregulation of BNIP3 and NIX, is an essential mediator of this pathway in SH-SY5Y cells. In contrast, HIF1α is dispensable for mitophagy occurring upon mitochondrial depolarisation. To examine the role of this pathway in a metabolic reprogramming and differentiation context, we utilised the H9c2 cell line model of cardiomyocyte maturation. During differentiation of these cardiomyoblasts, mitophagy increased and required HIF1α-dependent upregulation of NIX. Though HIF1α was essential for expression of key cardiomyocyte markers, mitophagy was not directly required. However, enhancing mitophagy through NIX overexpression, accelerated marker gene expression. Taken together, our findings provide a molecular link between mitophagy signalling and cardiomyocyte differentiation and suggest that although mitophagy may not be essential

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BNIP3cardiomyocytedifferentiationHIF1αiron chelationmitophagyNIX

Identifiers

PMID32420530
PMCPMC7212530
OpenAlexW3011835552

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