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Nature Cell Biology 9, 1227 - 1229 (2007)
doi:10.1038/ncb1107-1227

HtrA2 and Parkinson's disease: think PINK?

Emad S. Alnemri1

  1. Emad S. Alnemri is in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Apoptosis Research, Kimmel Cancer Institute, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA.
    e-mail: E_Alnemri@lac.jci.tju.edu


Mitochondrial dysfunction is primarily responsible for neurodegeneration in Parkinson's disease. The Parkinson's-disease-associated kinase PINK1 has been identified as an important regulator of the activity of the mitochondria-associated stress-protective protease HtrA2.

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