What is nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB) doing in and to the mitochondrion?

BC Albensi - Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
A large body of literature supports the idea that nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB) signaling
contributes to not only immunity, but also inflammation, cancer, and nervous system function …

Mitochondrial DNA transcription and its regulation: an evolutionary perspective

G Barshad, S Marom, T Cohen, D Mishmar - Trends in genetics, 2018 - cell.com
The bacterial heritage of mitochondria, as well as its independent genome [mitochondrial
DNA (mtDNA)] and polycistronic transcripts, led to the view that mitochondrial transcriptional …

[HTML][HTML] Comparative genomics reveals the organic acid biosynthesis metabolic pathways among five lactic acid bacterial species isolated from fermented vegetables

CO Okoye, K Dong, Y Wang, L Gao, X Li, Y Wu… - New …, 2022 - Elsevier
Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) comprise a widespread bacterial group, inhabiting the niches of
fermented vegetables and capable of producing beneficial organic acids. In the present …

Assessing the fitness consequences of mitonuclear interactions in natural populations

GE Hill, JC Havird, DB Sloan, RS Burton… - Biological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Metazoans exist only with a continuous and rich supply of chemical energy from oxidative
phosphorylation in mitochondria. The oxidative phosphorylation machinery that mediates …

Experimental Support That Natural Selection Has Shaped the Latitudinal Distribution of Mitochondrial Haplotypes in Australian Drosophila melanogaster

MF Camus, JN Wolff, CM Sgrò… - Molecular Biology and …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Cellular metabolism is regulated by enzyme complexes within the mitochondrion, the
function of which are sensitive to the prevailing temperature. Such thermal sensitivity …

Vitamin D receptor regulates transcription of mitochondrial DNA and directly interacts with mitochondrial DNA and TFAM

D Gezen-Ak, M Alaylıoğlu, Z Yurttaş, T Çamoğlu… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Vitamin D receptor (VDR) is an essential transcription factor (TF) synthesized in different cell
types. We hypothesized that VDR might also act as a mitochondrial TF. We conducted the …

Mitochondrial 16S rRNA is methylated by tRNA methyltransferase TRMT61B in all vertebrates

D Bar-Yaacov, I Frumkin, Y Yashiro, T Chujo… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
The mitochondrial ribosome, which translates all mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)-encoded
proteins, should be tightly regulated pre-and post-transcriptionally. Recently, we found RNA …

The metazoan landscape of mitochondrial DNA gene order and content is shaped by selection and affects mitochondrial transcription

N Shtolz, D Mishmar - Communications Biology, 2023 - nature.com
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) harbors essential genes in most metazoans, yet the regulatory
impact of the multiple evolutionary mtDNA rearrangements has been overlooked. Here, by …

The mitochondrial genome–on selective constraints and signatures at the organism, cell, and single mitochondrion levels

N Shtolz, D Mishmar - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Natural selection acts on the phenotype. Therefore, many mistakenly expect to observe its
signatures only in the organism, while overlooking its impact on tissues, cells and …

Immune system cells from COVID-19 patients display compromised mitochondrial-nuclear expression co-regulation and rewiring toward glycolysis

H Medini, A Zirman, D Mishmar - Iscience, 2021 - cell.com
Mitochondria are pivotal for bioenergetics, as well as in cellular response to viral infections.
Nevertheless, their role in COVID-19 was largely overlooked. Here, we analyzed available …