Reciprocal Roles of Tom7 and OMA1 during Mitochondrial Import and Activation of PINK1

  • Shiori Sekine
  • , Chunxin Wang
  • , Dionisia P. Sideris
  • , Eric Bunker
  • , Zhe Zhang
  • , Richard J. Youle*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

PINK1 activation on damaged mitochondria triggering Parkin-mediated mitophagy is achieved by PINK1 import arrest within mitochondria. Sekine et al. show that this process involves competition between two mitochondrial proteins, Tom7 and OMA1, where a specific motif in PINK1 plays an important role, and describe its pathophysiologic relevance in Parkinson's disease.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1028-1043.e5
JournalMolecular Cell
Volume73
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 7 Mar 2019
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • OMA1
  • TIM23 complex
  • TOM complex
  • mitochondrial protease
  • mitophagy

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