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Functional Impairment in Miro Degradation and Mitophagy Is a Shared Feature in Familial and Sporadic Parkinson's Disease.
Cell stem cell - 1 Dec 2016
Hsieh Chung-Han, Shaltouki Atossa, Gonzalez Ashley E, Bettencourt da Cruz Alexandre, Burbulla Lena F, St Lawrence Erica, Schüle Birgitt, Krainc Dimitri, Palmer Theo D, Wang Xinnan
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Mitochondrial movements are tightly controlled to maintain energy homeostasis and prevent oxidative stress. Miro is an outer mitochondrial membrane protein that anchors mitochondria to microtubule motors and is removed to stop mitochondrial motility as an early step in the clearance of dysfunctional mitochondria. Here, using human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived neurons and other complementary...
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