Critical reappraisal confirms that Mitofusin 2 is an endoplasmic reticulum-mitochondria tether

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 40, 2016, Pages 11249-11254

  Naon, Deborah ^a   Zaninello, Marta ^a,b,c   Giacomello, Marta ^a,b   Varanita, Tatiana ^a,b   Grespi, Francesca ^a,b   Lakshminaranayan, Sowmya ^a,c   Serafini, Annalisa ^a,b   Semenzato, Martina ^a,b   Herkenne, Stephanie ^a,b   Hernández Alvarez, Maria Isabel ^d   Zorzano, Antonio ^d   De Stefani, Diego ^a   Dorn, Gerald W ^e   Scorrano, Luca ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b VENETIAN INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Italy)

^c IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^d INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN BIOMEDICINE   (Spain)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ca2+; Interorganellar communication; Mfn2; Mitochondria; Tethering

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; FLUORESCENT DYE; MITOFUSIN 2; CALCIUM CHANNEL; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MFN2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; MITOCHONDRIAL CALCIUM UNIPORTER;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL ORGANELLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FLUORESCENCE; GENE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MFN2 GENE; MITOCHONDRION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; FIBROBLAST; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LIVER; MAMMALIAN EMBRYO; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR PROBE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELL;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNELS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FIBROBLASTS; GENE DELETION; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; HUMAN UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; LIVER; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR PROBES;

EID: 84989964357     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1606786113     Document Type: Article

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