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Compartmentalized Regulation of Parkin-Mediated Mitochondrial Quality Control in the Drosophila Nervous System In Vivo.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 13 Jul 2016
Sung Hyun, Tandarich Lauren C, Nguyen Kenny, Hollenbeck Peter J
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UNLABELLED: In neurons, the normal distribution and selective removal of mitochondria are considered essential for maintaining the functions of the large asymmetric cell and its diverse compartments. Parkin, a E3 ubiquitin ligase associated with familial Parkinson's disease, has been implicated in mitochondrial dynamics and removal in cells including neurons. However, it is not clear how Parkin functions in...
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