| Chapter title |
Monitoring Mitochondrial Changes by Alteration of the PINK1-Parkin Signaling in Drosophila
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|---|---|
| Chapter number | 9 |
| Book title |
Mitophagy
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| Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, March 2017
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| DOI | 10.1007/7651_2017_9 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-7749-9, 978-1-4939-7750-5
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| Authors |
Tsuyoshi Inoshita, Kahori Shiba-Fukushima, Hongrui Meng, Nobutaka Hattori, Yuzuru Imai, Inoshita, Tsuyoshi, Shiba-Fukushima, Kahori, Meng, Hongrui, Hattori, Nobutaka, Imai, Yuzuru |
| Abstract |
Mitochondrial quality control is a key process in tissues with high energy demands, such as the brain and muscles. Recent studies using Drosophila have revealed that the genes responsible for familial forms of juvenile Parkinson's disease (PD), PINK1 and Parkin regulate mitochondrial function and motility. Cell biological analysis using mammalian cultured cells suggests that the dysregulation of mitophagy by PINK1 and Parkin leads to neurodegeneration in PD. In this chapter, we describe the methods to monitor mitochondrial morphology in the indirect flight muscles of adult Drosophila and Drosophila primary cultured neurons and the methods to analyze the motility of mitochondria in the axonal transport of living larval motor neurons. |
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