Mitochondrial fusion: Reaching the end of mitofusin’s tether

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 23 Nov 2016 English Publisher:Rockefeller University PressJournal:Journal of Cell Biology, volume 215, pages 597-598 (issn: 0021-9525, eissn: 1540-8140,

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Authors: Formosa, Luke E.; Ryan, Michael T.;

doi: 10.1083/jcb.201611048

pmid: 27881711

pmc: PMC5147007

Mitochondrial fusion: Reaching the end of mitofusin’s tether

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Abstract

In this issue, Qi et al. (2016. J. Cell Biol. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201609019) provide structural insights into the mechanisms of mitochondrial outer membrane fusion by investigating the structure of mitofusin 1 (MFN1). This work proposes a new model to explain the important and elusive process of MFN-mediated mitochondrial fusion.

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Drosophila melanogaster, Mutation, Commentary, Animals, Mitochondrial Dynamics, Mitochondrial Membrane Transport Proteins, Models, Biological

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