Fig. 6.
Mitochondrial Ca2+ promotes dephosphorylation of TFAM to enhance the mitochondrial biogenesis. a Western blotting analysis to measure protein expression levels of MCU, TFAM, and phosphorylated TFAM in LS174 cells, treated as indicated. b Correlation between relative TFAM expression and relative MCU expression in CRC tissue. c Western blotting analysis to measure protein expression levels of MCU, TFAM, and phosphorylated TFAM in LS174 cells, treated as indicated. TFAM S55A, mutation of serine-55 to alanine. Band intensity were quantified by densitometry and represented as the fold change of corresponding control value. d Reverse transcription-quantitative PCR analysis of relative mitochondrial DNA copy number in LS174T cells, treated as indicated. e, f Relative mitochondrial content and mitochondrial ATP levels were determined as mentioned above in LS174T cells treated as indicated. *P < 0.05; **P < 0.01. MCU mitochondrial calcium uniporter, CRC colorectal cancer, TFAM transcription factor A, mitochondrial, Ca2+, calcium