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Jurassic PARK2: You eat your mitochondria, and you are what your mitochondria eat.
Autophagy - 1 Jan 2016
Dorn Gerald W
Abstract excerpt
Park2/Parkin is a central mediator of selective mitochondrial autophagy for mitochondrial quality control. We showed in mouse hearts that PINK1/Mfn2/Park2 mediated generalized mitophagy is essential to the normal perinatal transition from fetal mitochondria that prefer carbohydrates as metabolic substrates to adult fatty-acid metabolizing mitochondria. Our findings demonstrate how functional interactions between...
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