Reactome | Cellular response to mitochondrial stress

Cellular response to mitochondrial stress

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R-HSA-9840373

DOI

10.3180/R-HSA-9840373.1

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Homo sapiens

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Cellular response to mitochondrial stress

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Mitochondrial stress caused by depolarization of the mitochondrial inner membrane, inhibition of proton flux across the mitochondrial inner membrane, or insufficient protein import capacity caused by inhibition of ATP synthase or iron deficiency is communicated to the cytosol and nucleus, resulting in decreased protein production and increased transcription of chaperones and metabolic genes among others. This pathway is known as the mitochondrial stress response and is a part of mitochondrial signaling and the integrated stress response (Reviewed in Eckl et al. 2021, Picard and Shirihai 2022, Lu et al. 2022, Liu and Birsoy 2023). The mitochondrial stress response participates in adapting cells to harsher environments and, hence, plays a role in tumor progression and metastasis (reviewed in Lee et al. 2022).
In unstressed mitochondria, DELE1 is constitutively imported into the mitochondrial matrix and degraded by the LONP1 ATP-dependent protease (Fessler et al. 2022, Sekine et al. 2023). Mitochondrial stress inhibits the complete transit of DELE1 into the matrix and activates the inner membrane protease OMA1 by self-cleavage (Fessler et al. 2022, Sekine et al. 2023, inferred from the mouse Oma1 homolog in Baker et al. 2014, Zhang et al. 2014). Activated OMA1 cleaves the N-terminal region of DELE1 on the outer face of the inner membrane as DELE1 is unable to fully cross the inner membrane (Fessler et al. 2020, Guo et al. 2020, Fessler et al. 2022). The resulting C-terminal fragment of DELE1 egresses from the intermembrane space to the cytosol where it oligomerizes to form an octamer (Yang et al. 2023) which binds and activates EIF2AK1, a constituent kinase of the integrated stress response that phosphorylates EIF2S1, the alpha subunit of the eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2 (eIF2) (Fessler et al. 2020, Guo et al. 2020, Cheng et al. 2022). Phosphorylation of EIF2S1 inhibits general translation but increases translation of specific mRNAs that possess upstream open reading frames (reviewed in Wek 2018). Among these mRNAs are the transcription factors DDIT3 (CHOP), ATF4, and ATF5, which activate expression of chaperone genes among others.

Literature References

PubMed ID	Title	Journal	Year
36323233	Mitochondrial signal transduction Picard, M, Shirihai, OS	Cell Metab	2022
35388015	DELE1 tracks perturbed protein import and processing in human mitochondria Fessler, E, Krumwiede, L, Jae, LT	Nat Commun	2022
36931256	Metabolic sensing and control in mitochondria Liu, Y, Birsoy, K	Mol Cell	2023
32132706	A pathway coordinated by DELE1 relays mitochondrial stress to the cytosol Fessler, E, Eckl, EM, Schmitt, S, Mancilla, IA, Meyer-Bender, MF, Hanf, M, Philippou-Massier, J, Krebs, S, Zischka, H, Jae, LT	Nature	2020
35163244	The Mitochondrial PHB2/OMA1/DELE1 Pathway Cooperates with Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress to Facilitate the Response to Chemotherapeutics in Ovarian Cancer Cheng, M, Yu, H, Kong, Q, Wang, B, Shen, L, Dong, D, Sun, L	Int J Mol Sci	2022
34228161	Sensing, signaling and surviving mitochondrial stress Eckl, EM, Ziegemann, O, Krumwiede, L, Fessler, E, Jae, LT	Cell Mol Life Sci	2021
24719224	Membrane depolarization activates the mitochondrial protease OMA1 by stimulating self-cleavage Zhang, K, Li, H, Song, Z	EMBO Rep	2014
37327776	A mitochondrial iron-responsive pathway regulated by DELE1 Sekine, Y, Houston, R, Eckl, EM, Fessler, E, Narendra, DP, Jae, LT, Sekine, S	Mol Cell	2023
37550454	DELE1 oligomerization promotes integrated stress response activation Yang, J, Baron, KR, Pride, DE, Schneemann, A, Guo, X, Chen, W, Song, AS, Aviles, G, Kampmann, M, Luke Wiseman, R, Lander, GC	Nat Struct Mol Biol	2023
24550258	Stress-induced OMA1 activation and autocatalytic turnover regulate OPA1-dependent mitochondrial dynamics Baker, MJ, Lampe, PA, Stojanovski, D, Korwitz, A, Anand, R, Tatsuta, T, Langer, T	EMBO J	2014
36611815	Mitochondrial Unfolded Protein Response and Integrated Stress Response as Promising Therapeutic Targets for Mitochondrial Diseases Lu, H, Wang, X, Li, M, Ji, D, Liang, D, Liang, C, Liu, Y, Zhang, Z, Cao, Y, Zou, W	Cells	2022
29440070	Role of eIF2α Kinases in Translational Control and Adaptation to Cellular Stress Wek, RC	Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol	2018
32132707	Mitochondrial stress is relayed to the cytosol by an OMA1-DELE1-HRI pathway Guo, X, Aviles, G, Liu, Y, Tian, R, Unger, BA, Lin, YT, Wiita, AP, Xu, K, Correia, MA, Kampmann, M	Nature	2020
35269393	Role of Mitochondrial Stress Response in Cancer Progression Lee, YG, Park, DH, Chae, YC	Cells	2022