Mitochondrial fusion and ERK activity regulate steroidogenic acute regulatory protein localization in mitochondria

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Duarte, Alejandra ^a   Castillo, Ana Fernanda ^a   Podestá, Ernesto J ^a   Poderoso, Cecilia ^a  

^a Universidad de Buenos Aires   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; MITOFUSIN 2; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN VARIANT; STEROID; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN; CYCLIC AMP; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MFN2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; PHOSPHOSERINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; GENE SILENCING; LEYDIG CELL; MITOCHONDRIAL FUSION; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; STEROIDOGENESIS; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL LINE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRIAL DYNAMICS; MOUSE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; MALE; MICE; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL DYNAMICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOSPHOSERINE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA, MESSENGER; STEROIDS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84903287090     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0100387     Document Type: Article

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