Merging mitochondria matters. Cellular role and molecular machinery of mitochondrial fusion

EMBO Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 527-531

  Westermann, Benedikt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; FZO PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MGM1 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

CELL AGING; CELL ENERGY; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MEMBRANE FUSION; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPERMATOGENESIS; YEAST CELL; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; PHYSIOLOGY; YEAST;

DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MEMBRANE FUSION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; YEASTS;

EID: 0036308235     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/embo-reports/kvf113     Document Type: Review

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