• Primary rat LSECs preserve their characteristic phenotype after cryopreservation 

      Mönkemöller, Viola; Mao, Hong; Hubner, Wolfgang; Heimann, Peter; Levy, Gahl; Huser, Thomas; Kaltschmidt, Barbara; Kaltschmidt, Christian; Øie, Cristina Ionica (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-10-02)
      Liver disease is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Recently, the liver non-parenchymal cells have gained increasing attention for their potential role in the development of liver disease. Liver sinusoidal endothelial cells (LSECs), a specialized type of endothelial cells that have unique morphology and function, play a fundamental role in maintaining liver homeostasis. Current ...
    • SAMM50 acts with p62 in piecemeal basal- and OXPHOS-induced mitophagy of SAM and MICOS components 

      Abudu, Yakubu Princely; Shrestha, Birendra Kumar; Zhang, Wenxin; Palara, Anthimi; Brenne, Hanne Britt; Larsen, Kenneth Bowitz; Wolfson, Deanna; Dumitriu, Gianina; Øie, Cristina Ionica; Ahluwalia, Balpreet Singh; Levy, Gahl; Behrends, Christian; Tooze, Sharon A; Mouilleron, Stephane; Lamark, Trond; Johansen, Terje (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-05-26)
      Mitophagy is the degradation of surplus or damaged mitochondria by autophagy. In addition to programmed and stress-induced mitophagy, basal mitophagy processes exert organelle quality control. Here, we show that the sorting and assembly machinery (SAM) complex protein SAMM50 interacts directly with ATG8 family proteins and p62/SQSTM1 to act as a receptor for a basal mitophagy of components of the ...