Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

Alternative assembly of respiratory complex II connects energy stress to metabolic checkpoints

  • Ayenachew Bezawork-Geleta,
  • He Wen,
  • LanFeng Dong,
  • Bing Yan,
  • Jelena Vider,
  • Stepana Boukalova,
  • Linda Krobova,
  • Katerina Vanova,
  • Renata Zobalova,
  • Margarita Sobol,
  • Pavel Hozak,
  • Silvia Magalhaes Novais,
  • Veronika Caisova,
  • Pavel Abaffy,
  • Ravindra Naraine,
  • Ying Pang,
  • Thiri Zaw,
  • Ping Zhang,
  • Radek Sindelka,
  • Mikael Kubista,
  • Steven Zuryn,
  • Mark P. Molloy,
  • Michael V. Berridge,
  • Karel Pacak,
  • Jakub Rohlena,
  • Sunghyouk Park,
  • Jiri Neuzil

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04603-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Mitochondrial complex II is normally composed of four subunits. Here the authors show that bioenergetic stress conditions give rise to a partially assembled variant of complex II, which shifts the anabolic pathways to less energy demanding processes.