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ArticleNature cell biology2025

In situ architecture of the human prohibitin complex.

Felix Lange, Michael Ratz, Jan-Niklas Dohrke, Maxence Le Vasseur, Dirk Wenzel, Peter Ilgen, Dietmar Riedel, Stefan Jakobs

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Article in Nature cell biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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24 citing papers in PubMed.

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  19. In situ cryo-ET visualization of mitochondrial depolarization and mitophagic engulfment.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Felix Lange *Department of NanoBiophotonics, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany.
Michael Ratz *Department of NanoBiophotonics, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9795-8033
Jan-Niklas DohrkeDepartment of NanoBiophotonics, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany.
Maxence Le VasseurAltos Labs, Bay Area Institute of Science, Redwood City, CA, USA.
Dirk WenzelLaboratory of Electron Microscopy, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany.
Peter IlgenDepartment of NanoBiophotonics, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0002-9895-8577
Dietmar RiedelLaboratory of Electron Microscopy, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2970-6894
Stefan JakobsDepartment of NanoBiophotonics, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany. sjakobs@gwdg.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8028-3121

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) FOR 2848Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) SFB 1456Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) TRR 274EC | EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation H2020 | H2020 Priority Excellent Science | H2020 European Research Council (H2020 Excellent Science - European Research Council) ERCAdG No. 835102
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prohibitins are a highly conserved family of proteins that have been implicated in a variety of functions including mitochondrial stress signalling and housekeeping, cell cycle progression, apoptosis, lifespan regulation and many others. The human prohibitins prohibitin 1 and prohibitin 2 have been proposed to act as scaffolds within the mitochondrial inner membrane, but their molecular organization has remained elusive. Here we determined the molecular organization of the human prohibitin complex within the mitochondrial inner membrane using an integrative structural biology approach combining quantitative western blotting, cryo-electron tomography, subtomogram averaging and molecular modelling. The proposed bell-shaped structure consists of 11 alternating prohibitin 1 and prohibitin 2 molecules. This study reveals an average of about 43 prohibitin complexes per crista, covering 1-3% of the crista membrane area. These findings provide a structural basis for understanding the functional contributions of prohibitins to the integrity and spatial organization of the mitochondrial inner membrane.

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MitochondriaMitochondrial MembranesRepressor ProteinsCryoelectron MicroscopyElectron Microscope TomographyHumansModels, MolecularProhibitinsProhibitinsRepressor Proteins

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PMID40119201
PMCPMC11991916

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