The genetic architecture of mitochondrial dysfunction in Parkinson's disease

SB Larsen, Z Hanss, R Krüger - Cell and tissue research, 2018 - Springer
Mitochondrial impairment is a well-established pathological pathway implicated in
Parkinson's disease (PD). Defects of the complex I of the mitochondrial respiratory chain …

[HTML][HTML] The mitochondrial unfolded protein response: a hinge between healthy and pathological aging

F Muñoz-Carvajal, M Sanhueza - Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Aging is the time-dependent functional decline that increases the vulnerability to different
forms of stress, constituting the major risk factor for the development of neurodegenerative …

The SAC 1 domain in synaptojanin is required for autophagosome maturation at presynaptic terminals

R Vanhauwaert, S Kuenen, R Masius… - The EMBO …, 2017 - embopress.org
Presynaptic terminals are metabolically active and accrue damage through continuous
vesicle cycling. How synapses locally regulate protein homeostasis is poorly understood …

Mitochondrial chaperones in human health and disease

T Bahr, J Katuri, T Liang, Y Bai - Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
Molecular chaperones are a family of proteins that maintain cellular protein homeostasis
through non-covalent peptide folding and quality control mechanisms. The chaperone …

Evidence for a common biological pathway linking three Parkinson's disease‐causing genes: parkin, PINK1 and DJ‐1

C van der Merwe, Z Jalali Sefid Dashti… - European Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterised by the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the
midbrain. Autosomal recessive, early‐onset cases of PD are predominantly caused by …

Mitochondrial proteolytic stress induced by loss of mortalin function is rescued by Parkin and PINK1

LF Burbulla, JC Fitzgerald, K Stegen… - Cell death & …, 2014 - nature.com
The mitochondrial chaperone mortalin was implicated in Parkinson's disease (PD) because
of its reduced levels in the brains of PD patients and disease-associated rare genetic …

Loss of HSPA9 induces peroxisomal degradation by increasing pexophagy

DS Jo, SJ Park, AK Kim, NY Park, JB Kim, JE Bae… - Autophagy, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Quality control of peroxisomes is essential for cellular homeostasis. However, the
mechanism underlying pexophagy is largely unknown. In this study, we identified HSPA9 as …

Relevance of mortalin to cancer cell stemness and cancer therapy

CO Yun, P Bhargava, Y Na, JS Lee, J Ryu, SC Kaul… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Mortalin/mtHsp70 is a member of Hsp70 family of proteins. Enriched in a large variety of
cancers, it has been shown to contribute to the process of carcinogenesis by multiple ways …

Insights into the role of mortalin in Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease, and HIV-1-associated neurocognitive disorders

Priyanka, P Seth - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Mortalin is a chaperone protein that regulates physiological functions of cells. Its
multifactorial role allows cells to survive pathological conditions. Pharmacological, chemical …

Unraveling the causes of sarcopenia: Roles of neuromuscular junction impairment and mitochondrial dysfunction

Y Miao, L **e, J Song, X Cai, J Yang, X Ma… - Physiological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Sarcopenia is a systemic skeletal muscle disease characterized by a decline in skeletal
muscle mass and function. Originally defined as an age‐associated condition, sarcopenia …