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The scaffold protein Atg11 recruits fission machinery to drive selective mitochondria degradation by autophagy.
Developmental cell - 15 Jul 2013
Mao Kai, Wang Ke, Liu Xu, Klionsky Daniel J
Abstract excerpt
As the cellular power plant, mitochondria play a significant role in homeostasis. To maintain the proper quality and quantity of mitochondria requires both mitochondrial degradation and division. A selective type of autophagy, mitophagy, drives the degradation of excess or damaged mitochondria, whereas division is controlled by a specific fission complex; however, the relationship between these two processes,...
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