Repair instead of renew: Damaged powerhouses of cells have their own 'workshop mode'

If the energy supply of a cell is disturbed by damage, it can protect itself from functional losses and repair itself in a kind of workshop mode. That is the result of a new study conducted by Professor Dr. Aleksandra Trifunovic and Dr. Karolina Szcepanowska as a leading scientist in her team, at the CECAD Cluster of Excellence in Aging Research at the University of Cologne. The findings have been published in Nature Communications under the title "A salvage pathway maintains highly functional respiratory complex I."

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