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MEDICINAL RESEARCH REVIEWS
Volume 40, Issue 2, Pages 811-817Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/med.21635
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cell death; cyclophilin D; drugs; F1FO-ATPase; mitochondrial permeability transition pore
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Bioenergetic failure often features programmed cell death involved in some severe pathologies. When the cell is fated to die, the inner mitochondrial membrane becomes permeable to ions and solutes, due to the formation and opening of a channel known as mitochondrial permeability transition pore (mPTP). Up to now, the still-elusive mPTP structure and mechanism prevented any attempt to identify/design drugs to rule its formation and limit cell death. Latest advances, which strongly suggest that the F1FO-ATPase can coincide with the mPTP, open new perspectives in therapy. Compounds targeting and inhibiting cyclophilin D, a known mPTP promoter, could be exploited to block mPTP formation. Moreover, if the mPTP-F1FO-ATPase connection will be consolidated, selected F1FO-ATPase inhibitors could represent novel therapeutic options to attenuate mPTP-related diseases by directly acting on mPTP molecular mechanism. This intriguing perspective, which raises new hopes to counteract mPTP-related diseases, stimulates further studies to clarify the mPTP architecture and mechanism.
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