Open AccessThe long and short of mitochondrial fusion
Author(s) -
Mitch Leslie
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
the journal of cell biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.414
H-Index - 380
eISSN - 1540-8140
pISSN - 0021-9525
DOI - 10.1083/jcb.1785iti3
Subject(s) - biology , mitochondrial fusion , fusion , mitochondrion , microbiology and biotechnology , computational biology , mitochondrial dna , genetics , gene , linguistics , philosophy
![][1] In a cell lacking OPA1 (top), mitochondria (red and green) remain aloof, but the combination of long and short OPA1 isoforms spurs them to fuse (bottom).Mitochondria malfunction unless they occasionally fuse with each other. Papers by Song et al. (page [749][2]) and Griparic
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