Mitochondrial calcium exchange in physiology and disease

JF Garbincius, JW Elrod - Physiological reviews, 2022 - journals.physiology.org
The uptake of calcium into and extrusion of calcium from the mitochondrial matrix is a
fundamental biological process that has critical effects on cellular metabolism, signaling …

Mitochondrial Ca2+ signaling

T Pathak, M Trebak - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2018 - Elsevier
Mitochondrial Ca 2+ regulation is crucial for bioenergetics and cellular signaling. The
mechanisms controlling mitochondrial calcium homeostasis have been recently unraveled …

The roles of mitochondria in global and local intracellular calcium signalling

B Cartes-Saavedra, A Ghosh… - Nature Reviews Molecular …, 2025 - nature.com
Activation of Ca2+ channels in Ca2+ stores in organelles and the plasma membrane
generates cytoplasmic calcium ([Ca2+] c) signals that control almost every aspect of cell …

Mitochondrial calcium cycling in neuronal function and neurodegeneration

GC Walters, YM Usachev - Frontiers in cell and developmental …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Mitochondria are essential for proper cellular function through their critical roles in ATP
synthesis, reactive oxygen species production, calcium (Ca2+) buffering, and apoptotic …

A selective and cell-permeable mitochondrial calcium uniporter (MCU) inhibitor preserves mitochondrial bioenergetics after hypoxia/reoxygenation injury

JJ Woods, N Nemani, S Shanmughapriya… - ACS central …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Mitochondrial Ca2+ (mCa2+) uptake mediated by the mitochondrial calcium uniporter
(MCU) plays a critical role in signal transduction, bioenergetics, and cell death, and its …

Metal coordination complexes as therapeutic agents for ischemia-reperfusion injury

NP Bigham, JJ Wilson - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023 - ACS Publications
Ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI), which describes the cell damage and death that occurs
after blood and oxygen are restored to ischemic or hypoxic tissue, is a significant factor …

Cryo-EM structure of a fungal mitochondrial calcium uniporter

NX Nguyen, JP Armache, C Lee, Y Yang, W Zeng… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The mitochondrial calcium uniporter (MCU) is a highly selective calcium channel localized to
the inner mitochondrial membrane. Here, we describe the structure of an MCU orthologue …

MICU1 interacts with the D-ring of the MCU pore to control its Ca2+ flux and sensitivity to Ru360

M Paillard, G Csordás, KT Huang, P Várnai, SK Joseph… - Molecular cell, 2018 - cell.com
Proper control of the mitochondrial Ca 2+ uniporter's pore (MCU) is required to allow Ca 2+-
dependent activation of oxidative metabolism and to avoid mitochondrial Ca 2+ overload …

Systematic identification of MCU modulators by orthogonal interspecies chemical screening

DM Arduino, J Wettmarshausen, H Vais… - Molecular cell, 2017 - cell.com
The mitochondrial calcium uniporter complex is essential for calcium (Ca 2+) uptake into
mitochondria of all mammalian tissues, where it regulates bioenergetics, cell death, and Ca …

Progresses in predicting post-translational modification

KC Chou - International Journal of Peptide Research and …, 2020 - Springer
Identification of the sites of post-translational modifications (PTMs) in protein, RNA, and DNA
sequences is currently a very hot topic. This is because the information thus obtained is very …