A fuzzy mitochondrial fusion apparatus comes into focus

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 468-478

  Mozdy, Amy D ^a   Shaw, Janet M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; DYNAMIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN FZO; PROTEIN FZO1; PROTEIN MGM1; PROTEIN UGO1; SNARE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS HEMAGGLUTININ;

CELL TYPE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HETEROKARYON; HUMAN; MEMBRANE FUSION; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; HUMANS; MEMBRANE FUSION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA; MELANOGASTER; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0038024175     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1125     Document Type: Review

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