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Trouble in the cell's powerhouse

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Studies of rare hereditary disorders are intended to find treatments, but they can also bring other discoveries. One such study links the dysfunction of a protein to that of the cell's energy producers, the mitochondria.

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Figure 1: Out-of-shape organelles lead to disease.

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  1. Derek P. Narendra and Richard J. Youle are in the Biochemistry Section, Surgical Neurology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.,

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