Neuronal mitochondria transport Pink1 mRNA via Synaptojanin 2 to support local mitophagy
Angelika Bettina Harbauer, J. Tabitha Hees, Simone Wanderoy, Inmaculada Segura, Whitney S. Gibbs, Yiming Cheng, Martha Ordonez, Zerong Cai, Romain Cartoni, Ghazaleh Ashrafi, Chen Wang, Fabiana Perocchi, Zhigang He, Thomas L. Schwarz
The paper shows that Pink1 mRNA is transported with mitochondria and tethered by SYNJ2BP and SYNJ2 to support local mitophagy in neurons.
Neuron · Feb 24, 2022Peer-reviewedNeuroscience