Role of cardiolipin in mitochondrial function and dynamics in health and disease: molecular and pharmacological aspects

G Paradies, V Paradies, FM Ruggiero, G Petrosillo - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
In eukaryotic cells, mitochondria are involved in a large array of metabolic and bioenergetic
processes that are vital for cell survival. Phospholipids are the main building blocks of …

Lipidomics for studying metabolism

X Han - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2016 - nature.com
Many thousands of lipid species exist and their metabolism is interwoven via numerous
pathways and networks. These networks can also change in response to cellular …

Mitochondria: a central target for sex differences in pathologies

R Ventura-Clapier, M Moulin, J Piquereau… - Clinical …, 2017 - portlandpress.com
It is increasingly acknowledged that a sex and gender specificity affects the occurrence,
development, and consequence of a plethora of pathologies. Mitochondria are considered …

Mitochondrial dysfunction in chronic respiratory diseases: implications for the pathogenesis and potential therapeutics

W Zhou, J Qu, S Xie, Y Sun… - Oxidative Medicine and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Mitochondria are indispensable for energy metabolism and cell signaling. Mitochondrial
homeostasis is sustained with stabilization of mitochondrial membrane potential, balance of …

Mitochondrial phospholipids: role in mitochondrial function

EM Mejia, GM Hatch - Journal of bioenergetics and biomembranes, 2016 - Springer
Mitochondria are essential components of eukaryotic cells and are involved in a diverse set
of cellular processes that include ATP production, cellular signalling, apoptosis and cell …

AAV gene therapy prevents and reverses heart failure in a murine knockout model of Barth syndrome

S Wang, Y Li, Y Xu, Q Ma, Z Lin, M Schlame… - Circulation …, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
Rationale: Barth syndrome is an X-linked cardiac and skeletal myopathy caused by mutation
of the gene Tafazzin (TAZ). Currently, there is no targeted treatment for Barth syndrome …

The role of cardiolipin concentration and acyl chain composition on mitochondrial inner membrane molecular organization and function

ER Pennington, K Funai, DA Brown… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2019 - Elsevier
Cardiolipin (CL) is a key phospholipid of the mitochondria. A loss of CL content and
remodeling of CL's acyl chains is observed in several pathologies. Strong shifts in CL …

The role of mitochondrial damage‐associated molecular patterns in chronic neuroinflammation

E Bajwa, CB Pointer, A Klegeris - Mediators of inflammation, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Mitochondrial dysfunction has been established as a common feature of neurodegenerative
disorders that contributes to disease pathology by causing impaired cellular energy …

CDP-diacylglycerol synthases (CDS): gateway to phosphatidylinositol and cardiolipin synthesis

NJ Blunsom, S Cockcroft - Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Cytidine diphosphate diacylglycerol (CDP-DAG) is a key intermediate in the synthesis of
phosphatidylinositol (PI) and cardiolipin (CL). Both PI and CL have highly specialized roles …

Bioenergetic aspects of mitochondrial actions of thyroid hormones

F Cioffi, A Giacco, F Goglia, E Silvestri - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Much is known, but there is also much more to discover, about the actions that thyroid
hormones (TH) exert on metabolism. Indeed, despite the fact that thyroid hormones are …