Cardiolipin, mitochondria, and neurological disease

M Falabella, HJ Vernon, MG Hanna… - Trends in Endocrinology …, 2021 - cell.com
Over the past decade, it has become clear that lipid homeostasis is central to cellular
metabolism. Lipids are particularly abundant in the central nervous system (CNS) where …

Unraveling the link between mitochondrial dynamics and neuroinflammation

LG de Oliveira, YS Angelo, AH Iglesias… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases are a major public health problem
worldwide, especially with the increase of life-expectancy observed during the last decades …

Anomalous peroxidase activity of cytochrome c is the primary pathogenic target in Barth syndrome

VE Kagan, YY Tyurina, K Mikulska-Ruminska… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Barth syndrome (BTHS) is a life-threatening genetic disorder with unknown pathogenicity
caused by mutations in TAFAZZIN (TAZ) that affect remodeling of mitochondrial cardiolipin …

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 …

Barth syndrome: cardiolipin, cellular pathophysiology, management, and novel therapeutic targets

HM Zegallai, GM Hatch - Molecular and cellular biochemistry, 2021 - Springer
Barth syndrome is a rare X-linked genetic disease classically characterized by
cardiomyopathy, skeletal myopathy, growth retardation, neutropenia, and 3 …

Melatonin: regulation of biomolecular condensates in neurodegenerative disorders

D Loh, RJ Reiter - Antioxidants, 2021 - mdpi.com
Biomolecular condensates are membraneless organelles (MLOs) that form dynamic,
chemically distinct subcellular compartments organizing macromolecules such as proteins …

Cardiolipin regulates mitochondrial ultrastructure and function in mammalian cells

Z Jiang, T Shen, H Huynh, X Fang, Z Han, K Ouyang - Genes, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cardiolipin (CL) is a unique, tetra-acylated diphosphatidylglycerol lipid that mainly localizes
in the inner mitochondria membrane (IMM) in mammalian cells and plays a central role in …

Mitochondrial damage & lipid signaling in traumatic brain injury

AM Lamade, TS Anthonymuthu, ZE Hier, Y Gao… - Experimental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Mitochondria are essential for neuronal function because they serve not only to sustain
energy and redox homeostasis but also are harbingers of death. A dysregulated …

Lipidomic analysis of brain and hippocampus from mice fed with high-fat diet and treated with fecal microbiota transplantation

J Li, H Huang, R Fan, Y Hua, W Ma - Nutrition & Metabolism, 2023 - Springer
Background Dietary fat intake affects brain composition and function. Different types of
dietary fatty acids alter species and abundance of brain lipids in mice. The aim of this study …

Restoration of mitophagy ameliorates cardiomyopathy in Barth syndrome

J Zhang, X Liu, J Nie, Y Shi - Autophagy, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Barth syndrome (BTHS) is an X-linked genetic disorder caused by mutations in the
TAFAZZIN/Taz gene which encodes a transacylase required for cardiolipin remodeling …