Mitochondrial Transport and Energy Metabolism in Health and Diseases
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2022) | Viewed by 29533
Special Issue Editor
Interests: mitochondrial transport; energy metabolism; L-and D-lactate transport and metabolism in animal, plant, yeast, and cancer mitochondria; light-biological systems interactions; programmed cell death
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Dear Colleagues,
Studies from many laboratories over recent years have uncovered the existence and established the properties of a variety of mitochondrial transporters. The properties of these transporters throw light on a variety of biochemical phenomena that were previously poorly understood. In particular, the role of mitochondrial transport in energy metabolism has been investigated under a variety of physio‐pathological conditions. However, this issue is still not exhaustively elucidated; in particular, some topics merit further attention. They include:
- How to study mitochondrial transport: strengths and weaknesses of different experimental approaches;
- K+, Ca2+, and metal ion transport in mitochondria;
- Protein movement across the mitochondrial membranes;
- How vitamins and vitamin derivatives can enter mitochondria;
- How nucleic acids can enter mitochondria;
- The transport and metabolism in mitochondria of selected metabolites (e.g., the lactate isomers, citric acid cycle intermediates, amino acids, etc.);
- Mitochondrial transport in glucose, fatty acid and amino acid metabolism;
- Mitochondrial micro-compartmentation and transport;
- Mitochondrial transport in diseases;
- Yeast mitochondria as a model in mitochondrial transport studies.
Prof. Dr. Salvatore Passarella
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- mitochondrial transport
- energy metabolism
- ion mitochondrial transport
- vitamin mitochondrial transport
- protein mitochondrial transport
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