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Ryuji Yamaguchi1, Lydia Lartigue1, Guy Perkins2, Ray T Scott2, Amruta Dixit2, Yulia Kushnareva1, Tomomi Kuwana3, Mark H Ellisman2, Donald D Newmeyer4.
Abstract
Controversy surrounds the role and mechanism of mitochondrial cristae remodeling in apoptosis. Here we show that the proapoptotic BH3-only proteins Bid and Bim induced full cytochrome c release but only a subtle alteration of crista junctions, which involved the disassembly of Opa1 complexes. Both mitochondrial outer membrane permeabilization (MOMP) and crista junction opening (CJO) were caspase independent and required a functional BH3 domain and Bax/Bak. However, MOMP and CJO were experimentally separable. Pharmacological blockade of MOMP did not prevent Opa1 disassembly and CJO; moreover, expression of a disassembly-resistant mutant Opa1 (Q297V) blocked cytochrome c release and apoptosis but not Bax activation. Thus, apoptosis requires a subtle form of Opa1-dependent crista remodeling that is induced by BH3-only proteins and Bax/Bak but independent of MOMP.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID: 18691924 PMCID: PMC2636708 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2008.07.010
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Mol Cell ISSN: 1097-2765 Impact factor: 17.970