Mito-QC mice express a mCherry-GFP tandem protein targeted to the mitochondrial outer membrane. When mitochondria are degraded in the lysosomes, the acidic environment quenches the GFP but not the mCherry fluorescence and mitophagy can be assessed on the basis of unbiased mCherry/GFP ratio or by selected gating strategy (23, 24 (link)). When stated cells were treated with FOXO inhibitor AS1842856 (50 nmol/L; S8222, Selleckchem) or mitophagy inhibitor mDivi (10 µmol/L; HY-15886, MedChem Express).
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