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ArticleEMBO reports2021

Monitoring mitochondrial translation in living cells.

Roya Yousefi, Eugenio F Fornasiero, Lukas Cyganek, Julio Montoya, Stefan Jakobs, Silvio O Rizzoli, Peter Rehling, David Pacheu-Grau

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Article in EMBO reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers.

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42citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

42 citing papers in PubMed, 75 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Roya YousefiDepartment of Cellular Biochemistry, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
Eugenio F FornasieroDepartment of Neuro- and Sensory Physiology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7643-4962
Lukas CyganekClinic for Cardiology and Pneumology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
Julio MontoyaDepartamento de Bioquímica, Biología Molecular y Celular, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain.
Stefan JakobsDepartment of NanoBiophotonics, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8028-3121
Silvio O RizzoliDepartment of Neuro- and Sensory Physiology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1667-7839
Peter RehlingDepartment of Cellular Biochemistry, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5661-5272
David Pacheu-GrauDepartment of Cellular Biochemistry, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
Universitätsmedizin Göttingen · DEUniversidad de Zaragoza · ES

Funding

European Research Council 339580European Research Council 835102
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mitochondria possess a small genome that codes for core subunits of the oxidative phosphorylation system and whose expression is essential for energy production. Information on the regulation and spatial organization of mitochondrial gene expression in the cellular context has been difficult to obtain. Here we devise an imaging approach to analyze mitochondrial translation within the context of single cells, by following the incorporation of clickable non-canonical amino acids. We apply this method to multiple cell types, including specialized cells such as cardiomyocytes and neurons, and monitor with spatial resolution mitochondrial translation in axons and dendrites. We also show that translation imaging allows to monitor mitochondrial protein expression in patient fibroblasts. Approaching mitochondrial translation with click chemistry opens new avenues to understand how mitochondrial biogenesis is integrated into the cellular context and can be used to assess mitochondrial gene expression in mitochondrial diseases.

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Mitochondrial ProteinsProtein BiosynthesisHumansMitochondriaOrganelle BiogenesisOxidative PhosphorylationMitochondrial Proteinsgene expressionhippocampal neuronmitochondriasynapsetranslation

Identifiers

PMID33586863
PMCPMC8024989
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