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How to split up: lessons from mitochondria
Author(s) -
Dikov Daniel,
Reichert Andreas S
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
the embo journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.484
H-Index - 392
eISSN - 1460-2075
pISSN - 0261-4189
DOI - 10.1038/emboj.2011.219
Subject(s) - biology , mitochondrion , genetics , evolutionary biology , computational biology
Mitochondria underlie a continuous cycle of fission and fusion. Recent studies published in The EMBO Journal , EMBO Reports and The Journal of Cell Biology identified factors that recruit the fission factor Drp1 to mitochondria and inhibit or activate Drp1 activity.