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. 2022 Nov 3;30(3):753–765. doi: 10.1038/s41418-022-01080-2

Fig. 9. A model of the regulation of apoptosis during mitotic arrest by MARCH5.

Fig. 9

The ubiquitin ligase MARCH5 controls the stability of MCL1 during interphase. Mitotic degradation of MCL1 is proteasome-dependent but only partially dependent on MARCH5. Accordingly, MCL1 expression is elevated during early mitosis and takes longer to be depleted during mitotic arrest in MARCH5-depleted cells. NOXA is also stabilized in MARCH5-depleted cells in an MCL1-dependent manner. During late mitotic arrest, the destruction of MCL1 (by yet unidentified ubiquitin ligases X) and NOXA facilitates the activation of BAK and BAX. Our data suggest that the increase of mitochondrial DRP1 also plays a critical role in promoting mitotic apoptosis in the absence of MARCH5.