Abstract
ABSTRACT: Park2/Parkin is a central mediator of selective mitochondrial autophagy for mitochondrial quality control. We showed in mouse hearts that PINK1/Mfn2/Park2 mediated generalized mitophagy is essential to the normal perinatal transition from fetal mitochondria that prefer carbohydrates as metabolic substrates to adult fatty-acid metabolizing mitochondria. Our findings demonstrate how functional interactions between mitophagic mitochondrial removal and biogenic mitochondrial replacement facilitate metabolic maturation of the heart.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 610-611 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Autophagy |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| State | Published - 2016 |
Keywords
- Heart
- Parkin
- metabolomics
- mitofusin 2
- mitophagy
- transcriptomics