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ReviewNature reviews. Molecular cell biology2020

Mitochondria as multifaceted regulators of cell death.

Florian J Bock, Stephen W G Tait

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Review in Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1,305 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1,305 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Florian J BockCancer Research UK Beatson Institute, Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1133-1767
Stephen W G TaitCancer Research UK Beatson Institute, Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK. stephen.tait@glasgow.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7697-132X

Funding

Cancer Research UK 20145Cancer Research UK C40872/A20145
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Through their many and varied metabolic functions, mitochondria power life. Paradoxically, mitochondria also have a central role in apoptotic cell death. Upon induction of mitochondrial apoptosis, mitochondrial outer membrane permeabilization (MOMP) usually commits a cell to die. Apoptotic signalling downstream of MOMP involves cytochrome c release from mitochondria and subsequent caspase activation. As such, targeting MOMP in order to manipulate cell death holds tremendous therapeutic potential across different diseases, including neurodegenerative diseases, autoimmune disorders and cancer. In this Review, we discuss new insights into how mitochondria regulate apoptotic cell death. Surprisingly, recent data demonstrate that besides eliciting caspase activation, MOMP engages various pro-inflammatory signalling functions. As we highlight, together with new findings demonstrating cell survival following MOMP, this pro-inflammatory role suggests that mitochondria-derived signalling downstream of pro-apoptotic cues may also have non-lethal functions. Finally, we discuss the importance and roles of mitochondria in other forms of regulated cell death, including necroptosis, ferroptosis and pyroptosis. Collectively, these new findings offer exciting, unexplored opportunities to target mitochondrial regulation of cell death for clinical benefit.

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AnimalsApoptosisCaspasesCytochromes cHumansMitochondriaMitochondrial MembranesSignal TransductionCaspasesCytochromes c

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