A mitochondrial megachannel resides in monomeric F1FO ATP synthase

The ATP synthase has been suggested to contain the mitochondrial permeability transition pore (mPTP), which has a crucial role in cell death. Here the authors show that reconstituted ATP synthase monomers form voltage-gated and Ca2+ -activated channels with the key features of mPTP.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nelli Mnatsakanyan, Marc C. Llaguno, Youshan Yang, Yangyang Yan, Joachim Weber, Fred J. Sigworth, Elizabeth A. Jonas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13766-2