Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Miro clusters regulate ER-mitochondria contact sites and link cristae organization to the mitochondrial transport machinery

  • Souvik Modi,
  • Guillermo López-Doménech,
  • Elise F. Halff,
  • Christian Covill-Cooke,
  • Davor Ivankovic,
  • Daniela Melandri,
  • I. Lorena Arancibia-Cárcamo,
  • Jemima J. Burden,
  • Alan R. Lowe,
  • Josef T. Kittler

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12382-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Mitochondrial cristae organization and ER-mitochondria contact sites are critical structures for cellular function. Here, the authors use super-resolution microscopy to show that Miro GTPases form clusters required for normal ER-mitochondria contact sites formation and to link cristae organization to the mitochondrial transport machinery.