Mitochondria as a therapeutic target for common pathologies

MP Murphy, RC Hartley - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2018 - nature.com
Although the development of mitochondrial therapies has largely focused on diseases
caused by mutations in mitochondrial DNA or in nuclear genes encoding mitochondrial …

[HTML][HTML] Mitochondrial pharmacology

RAJ Smith, RC Hartley, HM Cocheme… - Trends in pharmacological …, 2012 - cell.com
Mitochondria are being recognized as key factors in many unexpected areas of biomedical
science. In addition to their well-known roles in oxidative phosphorylation and metabolism, it …

[HTML][HTML] Succinate dehydrogenase supports metabolic repurposing of mitochondria to drive inflammatory macrophages

EL Mills, B Kelly, A Logan, ASH Costa, M Varma… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Activated macrophages undergo metabolic reprogramming, which drives their pro-
inflammatory phenotype, but the mechanistic basis for this remains obscure. Here, we …

[HTML][HTML] Control of mitochondrial superoxide production by reverse electron transport at complex I

EL Robb, AR Hall, TA Prime, S Eaton, M Szibor… - Journal of Biological …, 2018 - ASBMB
The generation of mitochondrial superoxide (O 2−·) by reverse electron transport (RET) at
complex I causes oxidative damage in pathologies such as ischemia reperfusion injury, but …

[HTML][HTML] Mitochondrial ROS produced via reverse electron transport extend animal lifespan

F Scialo, A Sriram, D Fernandez-Ayala, N Gubina… - Cell metabolism, 2016 - cell.com
Increased production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) has long been considered a cause
of aging. However, recent studies have implicated ROS as essential secondary messengers …

[HTML][HTML] An AP-MS-and BioID-compatible MAC-tag enables comprehensive mapping of protein interactions and subcellular localizations

X Liu, K Salokas, F Tamene, Y Jiu… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Protein-protein interactions govern almost all cellular functions. These complex networks of
stable and transient associations can be mapped by affinity purification mass spectrometry …

Mitochondrial fragmentation drives selective removal of deleterious mtDNA in the germline

T Lieber, SP Jeedigunta, JM Palozzi, R Lehmann… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Mitochondria contain their own genomes that, unlike nuclear genomes, are inherited only in
the maternal line. Owing to a high mutation rate and low levels of recombination of …

Emerging therapies for mitochondrial diseases

M Hirano, V Emmanuele, CM Quinzii - Essays in biochemistry, 2018 - portlandpress.com
For the vast majority of patients with mitochondrial diseases, only supportive and
symptomatic therapies are available. However, in the last decade, due to extraordinary …

Regulation of mitochondrial morphology and function by stearoylation of TFR1

D Senyilmaz, S Virtue, X Xu, CY Tan, JL Griffin… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Mitochondria are involved in a variety of cellular functions, including ATP production, amino
acid and lipid biogenesis and breakdown, signalling and apoptosis,,. Mitochondrial …

[HTML][HTML] Mitochondrial supercomplexes do not enhance catalysis by quinone channeling

JG Fedor, J Hirst - Cell metabolism, 2018 - cell.com
Mitochondrial respiratory supercomplexes, comprising complexes I, III, and IV, are the
minimal functional units of the electron transport chain. Assembling the individual complexes …