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SUBMITTER: Meissner C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4590680 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Meissner Cathrin C Lorenz Holger H Hehn Beate B Lemberg Marius K MK
Autophagy 20150101 9
Mutations in PINK1 and PARK2/Parkin are a main risk factor for familial Parkinson disease. While the physiological mechanism of their activation is unclear, these proteins have been shown in tissue culture cells to serve as a key trigger for autophagy of depolarized mitochondria. Here we show that ablation of the mitochondrial rhomboid protease PARL leads to retrograde translocation of an intermembrane space-bridging PINK1 import intermediate. Subsequently, it is rerouted to the outer membrane i ...[more]