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Marion Schmidt1, Brian K Kennedy.
Abstract
Mitochondria deteriorate during the aging process, but the underlying mechanisms for the decline of this critical organelle are unknown. A new study indicates that in yeast an age-dependent reduction in vacuolar acidification leads to mitochondrial dysfunction through a surprising mechanism: loss of vacuolar neutral amino acid transport.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 23257191 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.11.016
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Biol ISSN: 0960-9822 Impact factor: 10.834