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PINK1-dependent phosphorylation of PINK1 and Parkin is essential for mitochondrial quality control.
Cell death & disease - 1 Dec 2016
Zhuang Na, Li Lin, Chen She, Wang Tao
Abstract excerpt
Mitochondrial dysfunction has been linked to the pathogenesis of a large number of inherited diseases in humans, including Parkinson's disease, the second most common neurodegenerative disorder. The Parkinson's disease genes pink1 and parkin, which encode a mitochondrially targeted protein kinase, and an E3 ubiquitin ligase, respectively, participate in a key mitochondrial quality-control pathway that eliminates...
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