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TraB, a novel plant ER-mitochondrial contact site protein functions as a mitophagy receptor in plants (2022)
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Duckney, P., Li, C., Hussey, P. J., & Wang, P. (2023). TraB, a novel plant ER-mitochondrial contact site protein functions as a mitophagy receptor in plants. Autophagy, 19(7), 2148-2150. https://doi.org/10.1080/15548627.2022.2151190

Autophagic degradation of mitochondria (known as mitophagy) is known to occur in all eukaryotes, and is important for the turnover of damaged mitochondria and recycling of nutrients during starvation. Targeting of mitochondria for autophagic degradat... Read More about TraB, a novel plant ER-mitochondrial contact site protein functions as a mitophagy receptor in plants.

TraB family proteins are components of ER-mitochondrial contact sites and regulate ER-mitochondrial interactions and mitophagy (2022)
Journal Article
Li, C., Duckney, P., Zhang, T., Fu, Y., Li, X., Kroon, J., …Wang, P. (2022). TraB family proteins are components of ER-mitochondrial contact sites and regulate ER-mitochondrial interactions and mitophagy. Nature Communications, 13, Article 5658. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33402-w

ER-mitochondria contact sites (EMCSs) are important for mitochondrial function. Here, we have identified a EMCS complex, comprising a family of uncharacterised mitochondrial outer membrane proteins, TRB1, TRB2 and the ER protein, VAP27-1. In Arabidop... Read More about TraB family proteins are components of ER-mitochondrial contact sites and regulate ER-mitochondrial interactions and mitophagy.

Membrane contact sites and cytoskeleton-membrane interactions in autophagy (2022)
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Duckney, P. J., Wang, P., & Hussey, P. J. (2022). Membrane contact sites and cytoskeleton-membrane interactions in autophagy. FEBS Letters, 596(17), 2093-2103. https://doi.org/10.1002/1873-3468.14414

In Eukaryotes, organelle interactions occur at specialised contact sites between organelle membranes. Contact sites are regulated by specialised tethering proteins, which bring organelle membranes into close proximity, and facilitate functional cross... Read More about Membrane contact sites and cytoskeleton-membrane interactions in autophagy.