Study of Mutations in Key Protein in Fruit Flies May Have Implications for Parkinson’s Disease
Studies of the fruit fly, or Drosophila melanogaster, have shown that a protein called clueless, or clu, is associated with the mitochondrial defects observed in Parkinson’s disease patients. The study showing that clu mutations lead to muscle degeneration, “Drosophila clueless is involved in Parkin-dependent mitophagy by promoting VCP-mediated Marf…