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INTRODUCTION<br />

<strong>in</strong> connection with Park<strong>in</strong>, maybe controll<strong>in</strong>g the balance between mitochondrial fission<br />

and fusion (Deng et al. 2008), and also with α-synucle<strong>in</strong> (Marongui et al. 2009). Park<strong>in</strong><br />

is located partially to the outer mitochondrial membrane (Darios et al. 2003) and also <strong>in</strong><br />

the mitochondrial matrix. Park<strong>in</strong> protects aga<strong>in</strong>st <strong>oxidative</strong> <strong>stress</strong> and has a<br />

hypothesized role <strong>in</strong> mitochondrial gene transcription and biogenesis <strong>in</strong> proliferat<strong>in</strong>g<br />

cells, but the precise mechanism is unknown (Jiang et al. 2004). A recent study<br />

demonstrated a primary function for Park<strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong> the regulation <strong>of</strong> mitochondrial turnover.<br />

Actually, Park<strong>in</strong> was shown to be specifically recruited to damaged or uncoupled<br />

mitochondria with low potential membrane to promote their clearance through the<br />

autophagosome (Narendra et al. 2008). Another PD and mitochondrial function related<br />

prote<strong>in</strong> is DJ-1, which is ma<strong>in</strong>ly expressed <strong>in</strong> the cytosol, <strong>in</strong> the nucleus and <strong>in</strong> the<br />

mitochondria (a pool located <strong>in</strong> the mitochondrial <strong>in</strong>termembrane space and <strong>in</strong> the<br />

matrix). DJ-1 is thought to be neuroprotective (Abou-Sleiman et al. 2003, Zhang et al.<br />

2005, Abeliovich and Fl<strong>in</strong>t Beal 2006, Zhou et al. 2006, Andres-Mateos et al. 2007,<br />

Schapira 2008) as it was recently reported to translocate to the mitochondria under<br />

conditions <strong>of</strong> <strong>oxidative</strong> <strong>stress</strong> (Junn et al. 2008). DJ-1 is then relocalized <strong>in</strong>to the<br />

nucleus, where it is proposed to b<strong>in</strong>d multiple RNAs and regulate p53‟s transcriptional<br />

activity.<br />

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