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ReviewPhysical biology2023

Mitochondrial networks through the lens of mathematics.

Greyson R Lewis, Wallace F Marshall

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Review in Physical biology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Review
  3. Diffusive spreading across dynamic mitochondrial network architectures.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
    Article
  4. Form and function of actin impacts actin health and aging.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
    Article
  5. Article
  6. Representing Mitochondrial Dynamics with Abstract Algebra.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Greyson R LewisBiophysics Graduate Program, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-0824-2093
Wallace F MarshallNSF Center for Cellular Construction, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, UCSF, 600 16th St., San Francisco, CA, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-8467-5763
University of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM008284 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI KORTEMME, TANJA · 1988 to 2022
$10.1M
Origins of Cell GeometryR35GM130327 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI Wallace Marshall · 2019 to 2026
$5.3M
Molecular Biophysics Training GrantT32GM149436 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI Aashish Manglik · 2023 to 2026
$1.6M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM130327NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008284NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM149436
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mitochondria serve a wide range of functions within cells, most notably via their production of ATP. Although their morphology is commonly described as bean-like, mitochondria often form interconnected networks within cells that exhibit dynamic restructuring through a variety of physical changes. Further, though relationships between form and function in biology are well established, the extant toolkit for understanding mitochondrial morphology is limited. Here, we emphasize new and established methods for quantitatively describing mitochondrial networks, ranging from unweighted graph-theoretic representations to multi-scale approaches from applied topology, in particular persistent homology. We also show fundamental relationships between mitochondrial networks, mathematics, and physics, using ideas of graph planarity and statistical mechanics to better understand the full possible morphological space of mitochondrial network structures. Lastly, we provide suggestions for how examination of mitochondrial network form through the language of mathematics can inform biological understanding, and vice versa.

Indexed as

Lens, CrystallineMathematicsMitochondriaPhysicsapplied topologygraph theorymathematical biologymitochondriapersistent homologystatistical mechanics

Identifiers

PMID37290456
PMCPMC10347554
OpenAlexW4379802089

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