Nature Communications (May 2020)

Vesicular transport mediates the uptake of cytoplasmic proteins into mitochondria in Drosophila melanogaster

  • Po-Lin Chen,
  • Kai-Ting Huang,
  • Chu-Ya Cheng,
  • Jian-Chiuan Li,
  • Hsiao-Yen Chan,
  • Tzu-Yang Lin,
  • Matthew P. Su,
  • Wei-Yuan Yang,
  • Henry C. Chang,
  • Horng-Dar Wang,
  • Chun-Hong Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16335-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Mitochondrial dynamics change during ageing, with larger mitochondria and altered protein import in older animals. Here the authors show that Dosmit protein mediates mitochondrial morphology with Rab32 by inducing double-membraned vesicles that regulate protein trafficking into mitochondria.