Nature Communications (Jun 2017)

Loss of Parkinson’s disease-associated protein CHCHD2 affects mitochondrial crista structure and destabilizes cytochrome c

  • Hongrui Meng,
  • Chikara Yamashita,
  • Kahori Shiba-Fukushima,
  • Tsuyoshi Inoshita,
  • Manabu Funayama,
  • Shigeto Sato,
  • Tomohisa Hatta,
  • Tohru Natsume,
  • Masataka Umitsu,
  • Junichi Takagi,
  • Yuzuru Imai,
  • Nobutaka Hattori

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15500
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Mutations inCHCHD2 are associated with Parkinson’s disease. Here the authors investigate the physiological and pathological roles of CHCHD2 in Drosophilaand mammalian cells, and find that it regulates mitochondrial respiration through stabilizing cytochrome c.