Permanent residency in the eukaryotic cell pressured the prokaryotic mitochondrial ancestor
to strategize for intracellular living. Mitochondria are able to autonomously integrate and …

Mitochondria are dynamic organelles that constantly fuse and divide. These processes
(collectively termed mitochondrial dynamics) are important for mitochondrial inheritance and …

Mutations in the human dynamin-related protein Drp1 cause mitochondria to form
perinuclear clusters. We show here that these mitochondrial clusters consist of highly …

Eukaryotic cells maintain the overall shape of their mitochondria by balancing the opposing
processes of mitochondrial fusion and fission. Unbalanced fission leads to mitochondrial …

▪ Abstract The inheritance of mitochondrial and chloroplast genes differs from that of nuclear
genes in showing vegetative segregation, uniparental inheritance, intracellular selection …

Yeast Dnm1p is a soluble, dynamin-related GTPase that assembles on the outer
mitochondrial membrane at sites where organelle division occurs. Although these Dnm1p …

Binary fission of many prokaryotes as well as some eukaryotic organelles depends on the
FtsZ protein, which self-assembles into a membrane-associated ring structure early in the …

Mitochondria are highly dynamic cellular organelles, with the ability to change size, shape
and position over the course of a few seconds. Many of these changes are related to the …

Mutations in the dynamin-related GTPase, Mgm1p, have been shown to cause
mitochondrial aggregation and mitochondrial DNA loss in Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells …

A recent issue of Science (Vol. 283, March 5, 1999) had a cover showing a mitochondrion
and a headline inside asserting thatMitochondria Make A Comeback'. Why the revival of …