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SUBMITTER: Vincow ES
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3631677 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Vincow Evelyn S ES Merrihew Gennifer G Thomas Ruth E RE Shulman Nicholas J NJ Beyer Richard P RP MacCoss Michael J MJ Pallanck Leo J LJ
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20130318 16
The accumulation of damaged mitochondria has been proposed as a key factor in aging and the pathogenesis of many common age-related diseases, including Parkinson disease (PD). Recently, in vitro studies of the PD-related proteins Parkin and PINK1 have found that these factors act in a common pathway to promote the selective autophagic degradation of damaged mitochondria (mitophagy). However, whether Parkin and PINK1 promote mitophagy under normal physiological conditions in vivo is unknown. To a ...[more]