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Véronique Sauvé1, Kalle Gehring1
1Department of Biochemistry and GRASP, McGill University, Montréal QC H3G 0B1, Canada.
Cell Research
|June 21, 2014
Abstract:
The Parkinson's disease (PD)-associated proteins, Parkin and PINK1, together comprise a mitochondrial quality control pathway that promotes neuronal survival through autophagy of damaged mitochondria. Three recent studies have found that Parkin recruitment to mitochondria and ubiquitin ligase activity is controlled by the phosphorylation of ubiquitin by PINK1.
