Nature Communications (Jan 2017)

A Rab5 endosomal pathway mediates Parkin-dependent mitochondrial clearance

  • Babette C. Hammerling,
  • Rita H. Najor,
  • Melissa Q. Cortez,
  • Sarah E. Shires,
  • Leonardo J. Leon,
  • Eileen R. Gonzalez,
  • Daniela Boassa,
  • Sébastien Phan,
  • Andrea Thor,
  • Rebecca E. Jimenez,
  • Hong Li,
  • Richard N. Kitsis,
  • Gerald W. Dorn II,
  • Junichi Sadoshima,
  • Mark H. Ellisman,
  • Åsa B. Gustafsson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14050
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Damaged mitochondria are normally cleared through canonical and alternative autophagy pathways. Here, the authors report that mitochondria can be cleared through an autophagy-independent endosomal-lysosomal pathway that depends on Parkin-dependent sequestration of mitochondria in Rab5-positive early endosomes.