Researchers Link New Protein to Parkinson's (IMAGE)

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Researchers Link New Protein to Parkinson's

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The protein Parkin, which is mutated in some forms of Parkinson's disease, helps cells clear damaged mitochondria. In this image of cells, taken 60 minutes after the cells' mitochondria were damaged with a poison, there is strong overlap (yellow) between fluorescently labeled Parkin (green) and mitochondria (red). Researchers at Tokyo Institute for Medical Sciences found that without a protein called MITOL, Parkin accumulated more slowly at damaged mitochondria.

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Koyano <em>et al</em>., JBC 2019

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