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SUBMITTER: Park KS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2662262 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Park Kyu-Sang KS Wiederkehr Andreas A Kirkpatrick Clare C Mattenberger Yves Y Martinou Jean-Claude JC Marchetti Piero P Demaurex Nicolas N Wollheim Claes B CB
The Journal of biological chemistry 20081002 48
Mitochondria form filamentous networks that undergo continuous fission/fusion. In the pancreatic beta-cells, mitochondria are essential for the transduction of signals linking nutrient metabolism to insulin granule exocytosis. Here we have studied mitochondrial networks in the insulinoma cell line INS-1E, primary rat and human beta-cells. We have further investigated the impact of mitochondrial fission/fusion on metabolism-secretion coupling in INS-1E cells. Overexpression of hFis1 caused dramat ...[more]