Crucially, it has been demonstrated that the anti-tumorigenic effect of both metformin and phenformin is reversed in cancer cells that are forced to express yeast NADH dehydrogenase NDI1 which enables complex I function to be bypassed [ 78, 79].
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Administration of FUdR significantly extends the lifespan of animals with tub-1 mutations, which exhibit fat accumulation, and gas-1 mutations, which disrupt mitochondrial complex I function [ 6, 9].
The mechanism by which Pink1 controls complex I function is still unknown.
Using Drosophila and mouse models, we show here that an early effect of PINK1 deficiency is the disruption of Complex I function, which results in mitochondrial membrane depolarization, increased sensitivity to apoptotic stress and synaptic transmission deficits in Drosophila neurons.
Of note is the recent approach taken by Pagliarini et al. (2008) to elucidate complex I function, which relied on the phylogenetic profiling of MitoCarta, a comprehensive compendium of the mitochondrial proteome.
As these organisms have a separate purK-like gene, these PurE enzymes only need to perform the class I function, which we expect based on these organisms' occurrence in cool, aerobic environments.
Similar results were obtained by treating cells with 5 µM GGTI-298 (which inhibits geranylgeranyltransferase I (GGTase I) function, thereby preventing prenylation of Rho-family GTPases (including Cdc42) and decreasing their function).
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Although the H function is incorrectly referred to as the "amount of information" of a system, the flow of information through a communication channel can easily be measured using the I function [ 14], which is defined as: (4) where H max is the maximum value of Shannon's H function [ 14].
