Natural Product Screening Reveals Naphthoquinone Complex I Bypass Factors.

Deficiency of mitochondrial complex I is encountered in both rare and common diseases, but we have limited therapeutic options to treat this lesion to the oxidative phosphorylation system (OXPHOS). Idebenone and menadione are redox-active molecules capable of rescuing OXPHOS activity by engaging com...

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Main Authors: Scott B Vafai, Emily Mevers, Kathleen W Higgins, Yevgenia Fomina, Jianming Zhang, Anna Mandinova, David Newman, Stanley Y Shaw, Jon Clardy, Vamsi K Mootha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5021346?pdf=render