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Tokyo Medical and Dental University

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While OPTN accumulates on the damaged mitochondria (at the mitophagy contact sites) in wild-type cells, TBK1 gene deletion inhibits OPTN accumulation.

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Department of Biomolecular Pathogenesis, TMDU

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