Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

FOXD1-dependent MICU1 expression regulates mitochondrial activity and cell differentiation

  • Santhanam Shanmughapriya,
  • Dhanendra Tomar,
  • Zhiwei Dong,
  • Katherine J. Slovik,
  • Neeharika Nemani,
  • Kalimuthusamy Natarajaseenivasan,
  • Edmund Carvalho,
  • Christy Lu,
  • Kaitlyn Corrigan,
  • Venkata Naga Srikanth Garikipati,
  • Jessica Ibetti,
  • Sudarsan Rajan,
  • Carlos Barrero,
  • Kurt Chuprun,
  • Raj Kishore,
  • Salim Merali,
  • Ying Tian,
  • Wenli Yang,
  • Muniswamy Madesh

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05856-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Genetic ablation of Mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake protein 1 (MICU1) in mouse induces higher rates of perinatal lethality. Here the authors show that MICU1 expression is regulated by hypoxia in a FOXD1-dependent manner, establishing a cyclic switch between glycolytic and oxidative metabolism during development.