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ArticleCommunications biology2022

LKB1 is the gatekeeper of carotid body chemosensing and the hypoxic ventilatory response.

Sandy MacMillan, Andrew P Holmes, Mark L Dallas, Amira D Mahmoud, Michael J Shipston, Chris Peers, D Grahame Hardie, Prem Kumar, A Mark Evans

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Article in Communications biology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Sandy MacMillan *Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, Hugh Robson Building, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9XD, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9675-3207
Andrew P Holmes *School of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Clinical Sciences, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK.
Mark L DallasSchool of Pharmacy, University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6UB, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5190-0522
Amira D MahmoudCentre for Discovery Brain Sciences, Hugh Robson Building, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9XD, UK.
Michael J ShipstonCentre for Discovery Brain Sciences, Hugh Robson Building, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9XD, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7544-582X
Chris Peers
D Grahame HardieDivision of Cell Signalling and Immunology, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dow Street, Dundee, DD1 5EH, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8373-7379
Prem KumarSchool of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Clinical Sciences, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK.
A Mark EvansCentre for Discovery Brain Sciences, Hugh Robson Building, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9XD, UK. mark.evans@ed.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4650-7208
University of Edinburgh · GBUniversity of Birmingham · GBUniversity of Dundee · GBUniversity of Reading · GB

Funding

British Heart Foundation RG/12/14/29885Medical Research Council MR/V012290/1Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust WT081195MA
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The hypoxic ventilatory response (HVR) is critical to breathing and thus oxygen supply to the body and is primarily mediated by the carotid bodies. Here we reveal that carotid body afferent discharge during hypoxia and hypercapnia is determined by the expression of Liver Kinase B1 (LKB1), the principal kinase that activates the AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) during metabolic stresses. Conversely, conditional deletion in catecholaminergic cells of AMPK had no effect on carotid body responses to hypoxia or hypercapnia. By contrast, the HVR was attenuated by LKB1 and AMPK deletion. However, in LKB1 knockouts hypoxia evoked hypoventilation, apnoea and Cheyne-Stokes-like breathing, while only hypoventilation and apnoea were observed after AMPK deletion. We therefore identify LKB1 as an essential regulator of carotid body chemosensing and uncover a divergence in dependency on LKB1 and AMPK between the carotid body on one hand and the HVR on the other.

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AMP-Activated Protein Kinase KinasesAMP-Activated Protein KinasesCarotid BodyHypoxiaApneaHumansHypercapniaHypoventilationAMP-Activated Protein Kinase KinasesAMP-Activated Protein KinasesSTK11 protein, human

Identifiers

PMID35768580
PMCPMC9243028
OpenAlexW4283694682

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