Open AccessMitochondrial fission is crucial for cristae remodeling
Author(s) -
Ben Short
Publication year - 2016
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.2125iti1
Subject(s) - biology , mitochondrial fission , microbiology and biotechnology , mitochondrion , fission , physics , nuclear physics , neutron
![Figure][1] During the early stages of apoptosis, mitochondrial cristae swell up in a wild-type cell (left), but mostly remain flat in a cell lacking MiD49 and MiD51 (right).[Otera et al.][2] reveal that the mitochondrial fission factor Drp1 and its receptors MiD49 and MiD51 promote
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