Get the balance right: Mitofusins roles in health and disease

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Cell Research

Volumn 1763, Issue 5-6, 2006, Pages 490-499

  Santel, Ansgar ^a  

^a Atugen AG (SR Pharma plc subsidiary)   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Bioenergetics; CMT2A; Fission; Mitochondria; Neurodegeneration

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C; GANGLIOSIDE INDUCED DIFFERENTIATION ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 1; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; INSULIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; MITOFUSIN; MITOFUSIN 2; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; PROTEIN; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN OXPHOS; RAS PROTEIN; STAUROSPORINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ERRALPHA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DEATH; CELL PROTECTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETICS; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MITOCHONDRION; MORPHOLOGY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; DISEASE; HEALTH; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES;

EID: 33745872237     PISSN: 01674889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2006.02.004     Document Type: Review

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