The physiological functions of human peroxisomes

RJA Wanders, M Baes, D Ribeiro… - Physiological …, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
Peroxisomes are subcellular organelles that play a central role in human physiology by
catalyzing a range of unique metabolic functions. The importance of peroxisomes for human …

Peroxisome biogenesis

PE Purdue, PB Lazarow - Annual review of cell and …, 2001 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Fifteen years ago, we had a model of peroxisome biogenesis that involved growth
and division of preexisting peroxisomes. Today, thanks to genetically tractable model …

COVID‐19 induces neuroinflammation and suppresses peroxisomes in the brain

A Roczkowsky, D Limonta, JP Fernandes… - Annals of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Peroxisome injury occurs in the central nervous system (CNS) during multiple
virus infections that result in neurological disabilities. We investigated host neuroimmune …

Peroxisome biogenesis, membrane contact sites, and quality control

JC Farré, SS Mahalingam, M Proietto, S Subramani - EMBO reports, 2019 - embopress.org
Peroxisomes are conserved organelles of eukaryotic cells with important roles in cellular
metabolism, human health, redox homeostasis, as well as intracellular metabolite transfer …

Peroxisomal targeting signal receptor Pex5p interacts with cargoes and import machinery components in a spatiotemporally differentiated manner: conserved Pex5p …

H Otera, K Setoguchi, M Hamasaki… - … and cellular biology, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
Two isoforms of the peroxisomal targeting signal type 1 (PTS1) receptor, termed Pex5pS
and (37-amino-acid-longer) Pex5pL, are expressed in mammals. Pex5pL transports PTS1 …

Peroxisome biogenesis in mammalian cells

Y Fujiki, K Okumoto, S Mukai, M Honsho… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
To investigate peroxisome assembly and human peroxisome biogenesis disorders (PBDs)
such as Zellweger syndrome, thirteen different complementation groups (CGs) of Chinese …

The peroxisome counteracts oxidative stresses by suppressing catalase import via Pex14 phosphorylation

K Okumoto, M El Shermely, M Natsui, H Kosako… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Most of peroxisomal matrix proteins including a hydrogen peroxide (H2O2)-decomposing
enzyme, catalase, are imported in a peroxisome-targeting signal type-1 (PTS1)-dependent …

The membrane peroxin PEX3 induces peroxisome-ubiquitination-linked pexophagy

S Yamashita, K Abe, Y Tatemichi, Y Fujiki - Autophagy, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Peroxisomes are degraded by a selective type of autophagy known as pexophagy. Several
different types of pexophagy have been reported in mammalian cells. However, the …

[HTML][HTML] Protein import machineries of peroxisomes

R Rucktäschel, W Girzalsky, R Erdmann - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta …, 2011 - Elsevier
Peroxisomes are a class of structurally and functionally related organelles present in almost
all eukaryotic cells. The importance of peroxisomes for human life is highlighted by severe …

Outer mitochondrial membrane E3 Ub ligase MARCH5 controls de novo peroxisome biogenesis

N Verhoeven, Y Oshima, E Cartier, CC Bippes… - Developmental Cell, 2025 - cell.com
We report that the outer mitochondrial membrane (OMM)-associated E3 Ub ligase MARCH5
is vital for generating mitochondria-derived pre-peroxisomes. In human immortalized cells …