...Rodolpho Ornitz Oliveira Souza; Kylie N. Jacobs; Peter S. Back; Peter J. Bradley; Gustavo Arrizabalaga ABSTRACT The single mitochondrion of Toxoplasma gondii is highly dynamic, being predominantly in a peripherally distributed lasso-shape in intracellular parasites and collapsed in extracellular...

... channel in the outer membrane of the mitochondrion with multiple roles in protein, metabolite and small molecule transport. In mammalian cells, VDAC protein, as part of a larger complex including the inositol triphosphate receptor, has been shown to have a role in mediating contacts between...

... in the yeast Kluyveromyces lactis mediates oxidative stress response and takes part in the regulation of cytokinesis. Rho-type GTPase Mitochondrion Cell wall Nutrient stress Yeast Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 HE 1880/6-1 Next...

... is implicated in processes leading to formation of gray hair and hypopigmented lesions in vitiligo patients. Melanosome Mitochondrion NCKX5 SLC24A5 Oculocutaneous albinism Pigment National Natural Science Foundation of China 10.13039/501100001809 31830054 81472871 91539204...

... division, inheritance and abscission in a eukaryotic cell. Extensive mitochondrial branching occurred only along the ventral surface of the parasite, but the mitochondria returned to a tubular form during cytokinesis. Fission of the mitochondrion occurred within the cytoplasmic bridge during the final...

... strategy. * Author for correspondence ( [email protected] ) 18 9 2012 © 2012. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2012 Endosymbiosis Protein targeting Chlorarachniophyte Plastid Mitochondrion In plant and algal cells, protein synthesis occurs in three...

..., whose growth proceeds from the apical end, first encapsulating the divided Golgi. Further extension of the cytoskeletal scaffold results in partitioning of the apicoplast, nucleus, endoplasmic reticulum, and finally the mitochondrion, which enters the developing daughters rapidly, but only very late...

... contain abundant positive charges on one face and hydrophobic residues on the other, but share little primary sequence homology. While extensive research on mitochondrial import has been done in yeast and mammalian cells, little is known about import or contents of the single mitochondrion of Toxoplasma...

... predicted transit sequence can be deleted with no apparent impact on the ability to direct green fluorescent protein to the apicoplast. The predicted transit peptide domain of the S9 targeting sequence directs protein to the mitochondrion in vivo. The transit peptide can also direct import of green...

...Tetsuhiro Minamikawa; Absorn Sriratana; David A. Williams; David N. Bowser; John S. Hill; Phillip Nagley ABSTRACT We report that chloromethyl-X-rosamine (MitoTracker Red), a mitochondrion-selective fluorescent probe, has a strong photosensitising action. Photoirradiation of intact cells loaded...

... for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] ) ‡ Present address: GENION Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Abteistrasse 57, 20149 Hamburg, Germany 30 04 1999 24 06 1999 © 1999 by Company of Biologists 1999 Tau Mitochondrion Transport Exocytosis Intermediate...

... © 1999 by Company of Biologists 1999 Mitochondrion Membrane potential Acidic vesicle Cell edge JC-1 The use of potential-sensitive mitochondrial probes, namely of the lipophilic cation 5,5′,6,6′-tetrachloro-1,1′,3,3′-tetraethyl-benzimidazol-carbocyanine iodide (JC-1), has...

... for correspondence 27 05 1998 28 03 1998 © 1998 by Company of Biologists 1998 S. cerevisiae D. discoideum Mitochondrion Mitochondria supply most of the cellular ATP in eukaryotic cells. The accumulation of mitochondria near sites of high ATP consumption (i.e. near flagellar...

... for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected] ) 29 09 1997 © 1997 by Company of Biologists 1997 Adrenal medulla CNP Chromaffin Mitochondrion The 2′,3′-cyclic nucleotide 3′-phosphodiesterase (CNP, EC 3.1.4.37) is an enzyme which was originally characterised by its ability...

... as a cytotoxic agent in the immune and nervous systems ( Hibbs et al., 1987 ; Dawson et al., 1991 ) this property, together with its role in intracellular signalling, is consistent with NO inducing cell death by apoptosis. Apoptosis Nitric oxide Mitochondrion © 1997 by Company of Biologists 1997...

... muscle tissue. (A) Subsarcolemmal mitochondrial populations of adjacent muscle fibres of a control soleus enveloping the nuclei of adjacent cells. Arrowhead (A and B) indicates plasma membrane. N, nucleus; star, mitochondrion. (B) Sample from a soleus of an 8-week GPA fed rat revealing enlarged...

... were categorized based on morphological characteristics seen by videoenhanced phasecontrast microscopy. An organelle was identified as a mitochondrion if it was phasedense and had a length at least twice that of its width, a large phasedense organelle if it was phase dark with an apparent diameter...

... and division in African trypanosomes. * Author for correspondence (e-mail [email protected] ) 12 12 1994 22 03 1995 © 1995 by Company of Biologists 1995 trypanosome Trypanosoma brucei microtubule mitochondrion kinetoplast differentiation cell cycle cytoskeleton...

... is separated from the mitochondrion by the cytoplasmic canal in such a way that mitochondrial ATP is not directly in contact with the axoneme ( Billard, 1969 ) and a shuttle should transport ATP close to dynein ATPases. Motility of spermatozoa depends on the dynein ATPases which hydrolyse ATP to produce...

...Sally G. Pasion; Grant W. Brown; Lisa M. Brown; Dan S. Ray ABSTRACT In trypanosomatids, DNA replication in the nucleus and in the single mitochondrion (or kinetoplast) initiates nearly simultaneously, suggesting that the DNA synthesis (S) phases of the nucleus and the mitochondrion are coordinately...