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Microfluidics-Assisted Selective Depolarization of Axonal Mitochondria
Published on: August 4, 2022
mSphere of Influence: Finding a Direction-How Do Mitochondria Know Where To Go?
1Metabolism of Infection, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany pernas@age.mpg.de.
Abstract:
Lena Pernas works in the field of metabolism of infection. In this mSphere of Influence article, she reflects on how work by Brian Cunniff (B. Cunniff, A. J. McKenzie, N. H. Heintz, and A. K. Howe, Mol Biol Cell 27:2662-2674, 2016, https://doi.org/10.1091/mbc.e16-05-0286) and Thomas Schwarz (G. Pekkurnaz, J. C. Trinidad, X. Wang, D. Kong, and T. L. Schwarz, Cell 158:54-68, 2014, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2014.06.007) helped her reframe the study of the interaction between a microbe and mitochondria.
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