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From: Mitochondrial fission and fusion in Dictyostelium discoideum: a search for proteins involved in membrane dynamics

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Rates of fission and fusion in wild-type, midA-, cluA-, dymA-, and dymB- strains. In all strains, the rates of fission and fusion were balanced (α = 0.05 for all comparisons). Symbols indicate significant differences between the rates of fission/fusion. Wild-type mitochondria undergo fission and fusion approximately one event/min. midA- cells have a significantly decreased fission rate (p-value = 0.0056) while the fusion rate is statistically no different (p-value = 0.17) than wild-type. Fission and fusion rates in cluA- cells are significantly decreased (p-value = 0.0218 and 0.0001 respectively) from wild-type, occurring approximately 1 event every 2 minutes. dymA- and dymB- cells do not significantly differ from wild-type cells in terms of mitochondrial fission and fusion (dymA- vs. AX4 fission: p-value = 0.93; fusion: p-value = 0.934; dymB- vs. AX4 fission: p-value = 0.38; fusion: p-value = 0.99).

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