Preprints (www.preprints.org) | NOT PEER-REVIEWED | Posted: 22 October 2019 doi:10.20944/preprints201910.0252.v1 1 Research Article 2 Iron depletion Reduces Abce1 Transcripts While 3 Inducing the Mitophagy Factors Pink1 and Parkin 4 Jana Key 1,2, Nesli Ece Sen 1, Aleksandar Arsovic 1, Stella Krämer 1, Robert Hülse 1, Suzana 5 Gispert-Sanchez 1 and Georg Auburger 1,* 6 1 Experimental Neurology, Goethe University Medical School, 60590 Frankfurt am Main; 7 2 Faculty of Biosciences, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany 8 * Correspondence:
[email protected] 9 10 Abstract: Lifespan extension was recently achieved in Caenorhabditis elegans nematodes by 11 mitochondrial stress and mitophagy, triggered via iron depletion. Conversely in man, deficient 12 mitophagy due to Pink1/Parkin mutations triggers iron accumulation in patient brain and limits 13 survival. We now aimed to identify murine fibroblast factors, which adapt their mRNA expression 14 to acute iron manipulation, relate to mitochondrial dysfunction and may influence survival. After 15 iron depletion, expression of the plasma membrane receptor Tfrc with its activator Ireb2, the 16 mitochondrial membrane transporter Abcb10, the heme-release factor Pgrmc1, the heme- 17 degradation enzyme Hmox1, the heme-binding cholesterol metabolizer Cyp46a1, as well as the 18 mitophagy regulators Pink1 and Parkin showed a negative correlation to iron levels. After iron 19 overload, these factors did not change expression. Conversely, a positive correlation of mRNA levels 20 with both conditions of iron availability was observed for the endosomal factors Slc11a2 and Steap2, 21 as well as for the iron-sulfur-cluster (ISC)-containing factors Ppat, Bdh2 and Nthl1.