Mitochondrial protein homeostasis and cardiomyopathy

E Wachoski-Dark, T Zhao, A Khan, TE Shutt… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Human mitochondrial disorders impact tissues with high energetic demands and can be
associated with cardiac muscle disease (cardiomyopathy) and early mortality. However, the …

Molecular Chaperones as Therapeutic Target: Hallmark of Neurodegenerative Disorders

A Sharma, OP Shah, L Sharma, M Gulati, T Behl… - Molecular …, 2024 - Springer
Misfolded and aggregated proteins build up in neurodegenerative illnesses, which causes
neuronal dysfunction and ultimately neuronal death. In the last few years, there has been a …

Expert panel curation of 113 primary mitochondrial disease genes for the Leigh syndrome spectrum

EM McCormick, K Keller, JP Taylor… - Annals of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Primary mitochondrial diseases (PMDs) are heterogeneous disorders caused by
inherited mitochondrial dysfunction. Classically defined neuropathologically as subacute …

PARL mediates Smac proteolytic maturation in mitochondria to promote apoptosis

S Saita, H Nolte, KU Fiedler, H Kashkar, AS Venne… - Nature cell …, 2017 - nature.com
Mitochondria drive apoptosis by releasing pro-apoptotic proteins that promote caspase
activation in the cytosol. The rhomboid protease PARL, an intramembrane cleaving …

PARL partitions the lipid transfer protein STARD7 between the cytosol and mitochondria

S Saita, T Tatsuta, PA Lampe, T König, Y Ohba… - The EMBO …, 2018 - embopress.org
Intramembrane‐cleaving peptidases of the rhomboid family regulate diverse cellular
processes that are critical for development and cell survival. The function of the rhomboid …

Skd3 (human ClpB) is a potent mitochondrial protein disaggregase that is inactivated by 3-methylglutaconic aciduria-linked mutations

RR Cupo, J Shorter - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Cells have evolved specialized protein disaggregases to reverse toxic protein aggregation
and restore protein functionality. In nonmetazoan eukaryotes, the AAA+ disaggregase …

Premature ovarian insufficiency in CLPB deficiency: Transcriptomic, proteomic and phenotypic insights

EJ Tucker, MJ Baker, DH Hock… - The Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Context Premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) is a common form of female infertility that
usually presents as an isolated condition but can be part of various genetic syndromes …

Heterozygous variants of CLPB are a cause of severe congenital neutropenia

JT Warren, RR Cupo, P Wattanasirakul… - Blood, The Journal …, 2022 - ashpublications.org
Severe congenital neutropenia is an inborn disorder of granulopoiesis. Approximately one
third of cases do not have a known genetic cause. Exome sequencing of 104 persons with …

Neutropenia and intellectual disability are hallmarks of biallelic and de novo CLPB deficiency

SB Wortmann, S Ziętkiewicz, S Guerrero-Castillo… - Genetics in …, 2021 - nature.com
Purpose To investigate monoallelic CLPB variants. Pathogenic variants in many genes
cause congenital neutropenia. While most patients exhibit isolated hematological …

Structural basis of impaired disaggregase function in the oxidation-sensitive SKD3 mutant causing 3-methylglutaconic aciduria

S Lee, SB Lee, N Sung, WW Xu, C Chang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Mitochondria are critical to cellular and organismal health. To prevent damage, mitochondria
have evolved protein quality control machines to survey and maintain the mitochondrial …