NIH R01 · 2024
Endoplasmic reticulum-assisted mitochondrial precursor biogenesis and quality control
Over the past decade, roles for the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) in the biogenesis of select nuclear-encoded mitochondrial precursors and the degradation of mutant, mis-localized, or non-productively imported proteins from the mitochondrial outer membrane (OM) have begun to emerge. Our interest in this unanticipated, novel ER-associated mitochondrial biology was serendipitous. In our ongoing efforts to characterize the lipid substrate trafficking requirements for phosphatidylserine (PS) decarboxylase 1 (Psd1 in yeast, PISD in humans), an evolutionarily conserved, integral inner mitochondrial membrane protein that produces phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), it became a priority for us to…
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