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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Apr 20.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurosci Res. 2008 Apr;86(5):961–971. doi: 10.1002/jnr.21564

Table 1.

Nuclear receptors and transcription factors that are translocated and found in mitochondria.

Mitochondria Targeting Proteins Reference
Nuclear receptors
Estrogen receptors (α and β) Yang et al., 2004; Chen et al., 2004a and b
c-ErbAα1 (Thyroid hormone receptor) Wrutniak et. al., 1995 and 2001
Glucocorticoid receptor (GR) Ioannou et al., 1988; Demonacos et al, 1996
Nur 77 Liu et al., 1994; Li et al., 2000; Lin et al., 2004
PPARγ2 Casas et al., 2000; Smith and Muscat, 2005

Transcription Factors
AP1 (c-fos/c-jun) Ogita et al., 2002 and 2003
CREB Cammarota et al., 1999; Lee et al., 2005; Ryu et al., 2005
NF-κB Cogswell et al., 2003
p53 Marchenko et al., 2000
TFAM (mt-TFA) Parisi et al., 1991
TFB1M Falkenberg et al., 2002
TFB2M Falkenberg et al., 2002