Figure 5, panel F (IMAGE)

Sanford Burnham Prebys

Figure 5, panel F

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The research team discovered that GFAP fibers kick off the splitting of mitochondria by wrapping around the organelles and applying a constricting force. The fibers then serve as a scaffold for the attachment of dynamin-related protein 1 (Drp1), which is known to be essential to the process of splitting mitochondria.

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Su-Chun Zhang, Sanford Burnham Prebys

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