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Mitophagy in Yeast: A Screen of Mitophagy-Deficient Mutants

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Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology ((MIMB,volume 1759))

Abstract

Mitochondrial autophagy (mitophagy) is a process that selectively degrades mitochondria via autophagy. Recent studies have shown that mitophagy plays an important role in mitochondrial homeostasis by degrading damaged or excess mitochondria. The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a powerful model organism that has been employed to study several biological phenomena. Recently, there has been significant progress in the understanding of mitophagy in yeast following the identification of Atg32, a mitochondrial outer membrane receptor protein for mitophagy. In this chapter, we describe protocols to study mitophagy in yeast via a genome-wide screen for mitophagy-deficient mutants using fluorescence microscopy and immunoblotting.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported in part by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI Grant numbers 26291039 (TK), 16H01198 (TK), 16H01384 (TK), 15H06223 (KF), and 16K18514 (KF), Yujin Memorial Grant (Niigata University School of Medicine) (TK), The Sumitomo Foundation (TK), Astellas Foundation for Research on Metabolic Disorders (TK), and Takeda Science Foundation (TK, KF).

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  1. Department of Cellular Physiology, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, 1-757 Asahimachi-dori, Chuo-ku, Niigata, 951-8510, Japan

    Kentaro Furukawa & Tomotake Kanki

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  1. Department of Neurology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

    Nobutaka Hattori

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    Shinji Saiki

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Furukawa, K., Kanki, T. (2017). Mitophagy in Yeast: A Screen of Mitophagy-Deficient Mutants. In: Hattori, N., Saiki, S. (eds) Mitophagy. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1759. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/7651_2017_13

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