Chapter title |
New Imaging Tools to Analyze Mitochondrial Morphology in Caenorhabditis elegans
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Chapter number | 16 |
Book title |
Mitochondria
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, March 2017
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-6824-4_16 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-6822-0, 978-1-4939-6824-4
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Authors |
Saroj G. Regmi, Stéphane G. Rolland |
Editors |
Dejana Mokranjac, Fabiana Perocchi |
Abstract |
Mitochondria are highly dynamic organelles that constantly fuse and divide. This process is essential as several neurodegenerative diseases have been associated with defects in mitochondrial fusion or fission. Several tools have been developed over the years to visualize mitochondria in organisms such as Caenorhabditis elegans. Combining these tools with the powerful genetics of C. elegans has led to the discovery of new regulators of mitochondrial morphology. In this chapter, we present additional tools to further characterize mitochondrial morphology as well as regulators of mitochondrial morphology. Specifically, we introduce a photoactivatable mitoGFP (PAmitoGFP) that allows to investigate the connectivity of complex mitochondrial networks. In addition, we describe an immunostaining protocol that enables localization studies of these newly identified regulators of mitochondrial morphology. |
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