Mitochondrial Homeostasis: How Do Dimers of Mitofusins Mediate Mitochondrial Fusion?

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Other literature type 01 May 2017 Switzerland English Publisher:Elsevier BVJournal:Current Biology, volume 27, pages R353-R356 (issn: 0960-9822,

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Authors: Daumke, Oliver; Roux, Aurélien;

doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.03.024

pmid: 28486121

Mitochondrial Homeostasis: How Do Dimers of Mitofusins Mediate Mitochondrial Fusion?

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Abstract

Mitochondria have high fusion and fission rates to maintain their size and number throughout the cell cycle. How is fusion mediated? New structural studies propose mechanisms by which the dynamin-like mitofusin proteins promote fusion of mitochondria.

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Switzerland

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Freie Universität Berlin
Germany
University of Geneva
Switzerland

Keywords

Cancer Research, Mitochondrial Membranes, Homeostasis, Protein Multimerization, 540, Membrane Fusion, Mitochondrial Dynamics, Mitochondrial Membrane Transport Proteins, Mitochondria, ddc: ddc:540

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