Apoptosis-inducing factor (AIF) in physiology and disease: the tale of a repented natural born killer

D Bano, JHM Prehn - EBioMedicine, 2018 - thelancet.com
Apoptosis-inducing factor (AIF) is a mitochondrial oxidoreductase that contributes to cell
death programmes and participates in the assembly of the respiratory chain. Importantly, AIF …

Focusing on mitochondria in the brain: from biology to therapeutics

N Song, S Mei, X Wang, G Hu, M Lu - Translational neurodegeneration, 2024 - Springer
Mitochondria have multiple functions such as supplying energy, regulating the redox status,
and producing proteins encoded by an independent genome. They are closely related to the …

Mitochondrial protein import dysfunction: mitochondrial disease, neurodegenerative disease and cancer

CS Palmer, AJ Anderson, D Stojanovski - FEBS letters, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The majority of proteins localised to mitochondria are encoded by the nuclear genome, with
approximately 1500 proteins imported into mammalian mitochondria. Dysfunction in this …

The immune system as a driver of mitochondrial disease pathogenesis: a review of evidence

A Hanaford, SC Johnson - Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 2022 - Springer
Background Genetic mitochondrial diseases represent a significant challenge to human
health. These diseases are extraordinarily heterogeneous in clinical presentation and …

AIFM1 beyond cell death: An overview of this OXPHOS-inducing factor in mitochondrial diseases

L Wischhof, E Scifo, D Ehninger, D Bano - EBioMedicine, 2022 - thelancet.com
Apoptosis-inducing factor (AIF) is a mitochondrial intermembrane space flavoprotein with
diverse functions in cellular physiology. In this regard, a large number of studies have …

The mitochondrial intermembrane space: the most constricted mitochondrial sub-compartment with the largest variety of protein import pathways

R Edwards, R Eaglesfield, K Tokatlidis - Open biology, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The mitochondrial intermembrane space (IMS) is the most constricted sub-mitochondrial
compartment, housing only about 5% of the mitochondrial proteome, and yet is endowed …

Ubiquitinated AIF is a major mediator of hypoxia-induced mitochondrial dysfunction and pulmonary artery smooth muscle cell proliferation

C Ma, X Wang, S He, L Zhang, J Bai, L Qu, J Qi… - Cell & Bioscience, 2022 - Springer
Background Excessive proliferation of pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells (PASMCs) is
the main cause of hypoxic pulmonary hypertension (PH), and mitochondrial homeostasis …

Apoptosis-inducing factor: a mitochondrial protein associated with metabolic diseases—a narrative review

L Zong, Z Liang - Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy, 2023 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background and Objective Apoptosis-inducing factor (AIF), a flavin protein in mitochondria,
is originally found to induce apoptosis under the stimulation of pro-apoptotic factors. As a …

[HTML][HTML] AIF meets the CHCHD4/Mia40-dependent mitochondrial import pathway

C Reinhardt, G Arena, K Nedara, R Edwards… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2020 - Elsevier
In the mitochondria of healthy cells, Apoptosis-Inducing factor (AIF) is required for the
optimal functioning of the respiratory chain machinery, mitochondrial integrity, cell survival …

[HTML][HTML] AIF3 splicing variant elicits mitochondrial malfunction via the concurrent dysregulation of electron transport chain and glutathione-redox homeostasis

M Zhou, S Liu, Y Wang, B Zhang, M Zhu… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
Genetic mutations in apoptosis-inducing factor (AIF) have a strong association with
mitochondrial disorders; however, little is known about the aberrant splicing variants in …