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SUBMITTER: Shirihai OS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4443843 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Shirihai Orian S OS Song Moshi M Dorn Gerald W GW
Circulation research 20150501 11
Mitochondria are highly dynamic, except in adult cardiomyocytes. Yet, the fission and fusion-promoting proteins that mediate mitochondrial dynamism are highly expressed in, and essential to the normal functioning of, hearts. Here, we review accumulating evidence supporting important roles for mitochondrial fission and fusion in cardiac mitochondrial quality control, focusing on the PTEN-induced putative kinase 1-Parkin mitophagy pathway. Based in part on recent findings from in vivo mouse models ...[more]