Sentences with phrase «reticulum contact»

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The researchers focused on the mitochondria - associated membrane (MAM), which is a contacting site of mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum (ER).

They counted each of the contact points between two cellular organelles — the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and mitochondria — and demonstrated for the first time that the number of these connections, called MAMs, markedly increase during obesity.

Chronic enrichment of hepatic endoplasmic reticulum - mitochondria contact leads to mitochondrial dysfunction in obesity.

Tim initially found a lipid transfer protein that localised to a contact site, and showed that it bound to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) protein VAP via a motif he named the FFAT motif.