Publication Date:
2011-01-06
Description:
Adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is a conserved sensor of intracellular energy activated in response to low nutrient availability and environmental stress. In a screen for conserved substrates of AMPK, we identified ULK1 and ULK2, mammalian orthologs of the yeast protein kinase Atg1, which is required for autophagy. Genetic analysis of AMPK or ULK1 in mammalian liver and Caenorhabditis elegans revealed a requirement for these kinases in autophagy. In mammals, loss of AMPK or ULK1 resulted in aberrant accumulation of the autophagy adaptor p62 and defective mitophagy. Reconstitution of ULK1-deficient cells with a mutant ULK1 that cannot be phosphorylated by AMPK revealed that such phosphorylation is required for mitochondrial homeostasis and cell survival during starvation. These findings uncover a conserved biochemical mechanism coupling nutrient status with autophagy and cell survival.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3030664/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3030664/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Egan, Daniel F -- Shackelford, David B -- Mihaylova, Maria M -- Gelino, Sara -- Kohnz, Rebecca A -- Mair, William -- Vasquez, Debbie S -- Joshi, Aashish -- Gwinn, Dana M -- Taylor, Rebecca -- Asara, John M -- Fitzpatrick, James -- Dillin, Andrew -- Viollet, Benoit -- Kundu, Mondira -- Hansen, Malene -- Shaw, Reuben J -- 1P01CA120964/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- 1P01CA120964-01A/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- 5P30CA006516-43/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P01 CA120964/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P01 CA120964-05/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P30 CA006516/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P30 CA006516-43/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P30CA014195/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 DK080425/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- R01 DK080425-04/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- R01 DK080425-05/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- T32 CA009370/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- T32 CA009370-29/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2011 Jan 28;331(6016):456-61. doi: 10.1126/science.1196371. Epub 2010 Dec 23.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory, Dulbecco Center for Cancer Research, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21205641" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
AMP-Activated Protein Kinases/*metabolism
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Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/metabolism
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Animals
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*Autophagy
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Caenorhabditis elegans/metabolism
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Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins/genetics/metabolism
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Cell Line
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Cell Line, Tumor
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Cell Survival
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Energy Metabolism
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Hepatocytes/metabolism
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Humans
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Insulin/metabolism
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Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism
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Liver/metabolism
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Metformin/pharmacology
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Mice
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Mitochondria, Liver/metabolism/ultrastructure
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Phenformin/pharmacology
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Phosphorylation
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Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism
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Signal Transduction
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Transcription Factors/metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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