title: Quantum dot-based protein imaging and functional significance of two mitochondrial chaperones in cellular senescence and carcinogenesis.
abstract: Mortalin/mtHSP70 and HSP60 are heat-shock proteins that reside in multiple subcellular compartments, mitochondria being the dominant compartment. We present here biochemical evidence for their in vivo and in vitro interactions. By the use of quantum dots (powerful tools used for simultaneous imaging of multiple proteins), we visualized minute differences in the subcellular niche of these two proteins in normal and cancer cells. Knockdown of either of these two by shRNA expression plasmids caused growth arrest of osteosarcoma cells. However, interestingly, whereas an overexpression of mortalin extended in vitro life span of normal fibroblasts (TIG-1), overexpression of HSP60 was neutral. We demonstrate the minute differences in subcellular distribution of mortalin and HSP60, their involvement in tumorigenesis, and functional distinction in pathways involved in senescence.
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
authors.forename: Zeenia
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Kaul
authors.forename: Tomoko
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yaguchi
authors.forename: Sunil C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Kaul
authors.forename: Renu
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wadhwa
mesh_terms: D018929:Cell Culture Techniques; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D002471:Cell Transformation, Neoplastic; D016922:Cellular Senescence / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology; D018834:Chaperonin 60 / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D020868:Gene Silencing; D018840:HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D024101:Mitochondrial Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D018832:Molecular Chaperones / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D012516:Osteosarcoma / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D010957:Plasmids; D045663:Quantum Dots; D034622:RNA Interference; D034741:RNA, Small Interfering / Q000378:metabolism; D013347:Subcellular Fractions / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D018834:Chaperonin 60; D018840:HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins; D024101:Mitochondrial Proteins; D018832:Molecular Chaperones; D034741:RNA, Small Interfering; C080352:mortalin