A R C H I V E D
[Albany Conference 1996]

 

Albany Conference on Frontiers of Mitochondrial Research

Participant and abstract list as of Sep-10-96

Keltoum Anflous
Universite Paris-Sud, France
Mitochondrial creatine kinase isoform expression does not correlate with its mode of action

Robert S. Balaban
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
Effects of BCL-2 on mitochondrial CA2+ uptake capacity and membrane potential
Effect of driving force on mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation: a network thermodynamic approach

Andrew Beavis
Medical College of Ohio
The effect of leader peptides on the permeability of mitochondria

Roland Benz
Biozentrum, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
The role of the N- and C-termini of recombinant neurospora mitochondrial porin in channel formation and voltage-dependent gating
Study of structure and function of recombinant pea root plastid porin by biophysical methods

Paolo Bernardi
University of Padova, Italy
Two modes of activation of the permeability transition pore: The role of mitochondrial cyclophilin

Jahar Bhattacharya
Columbia University

Frederic Bouillaud
Ceremod CNRS, France
Flow cytometry and selection of mutants of the uncoupling protein
Pore-like properties in a mutant of the uncoupling protein

Adina Breiman
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Functional differences between reconstituted wheat voltage- dependent anion channel isoforms (VDAC)
Molecular and functional characterization of wheat voltage dependent anion channels (VDAC)

Nickolay Brustovesky
University of Munich, Germany
Mitochondrial carriers in pore formation, the ADP/ATP carrier and the uncoupling protein
Ca2+ dependent conversion of the mitochondrial ADP/ATP carrier into a large low selective channel

Linas Buntinas
University of Rochester
Further characteristics of the rapid mode (RAM) of calcium uptake into liver mitochondria
Heart mitochondria show a rapid mode of Ca2+ uptake
A comparison of the uniporter and the RAM in heart and liver mitochondria

Marco Colombini
University of Maryland at College Park
ATP flux is controlled by a voltage-gated channel from the mitochondrial outer membrane
Probing the gating process of VDAC by using the biotin- streptavidin system
A novel VDAC-like protein in yeast can compensate for the absence of VDAC

William Craigen
Baylor College of Medicine
Molecular genetic approaches to VDAC function

Vito de Pinto
Universities of Catania and Bari, Italy
The presence of VDAC allows DNA translocation across planar bilayer membranes
Involvement of the voltage-dependent anion channel (VDAC) in human mitochondrial disorders
A strategy for the study of mitochondrial structure and function by isolating and mapping Drosophila melanogaster nuclear genes encoding mitochondrial proteins
Mitochondrial porin in Drosophila melanogaster

Joyce Diwan
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Adi Elkeles
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Functional differences between reconstituted wheat voltage- dependent anion channel isoforms (VDAC)
Molecular and functional characterization of wheat voltage dependent anion channels (VDAC)

Michael Forte
Oregon Health Sciences University
Probing the gating process of VDAC by using the biotin- streptavidin system
A novel VDAC-like protein in yeast can compensate for the absence of VDAC

Terrence Frey
San Diego State University
Mitochondrial structure and compartmentation

Keith Garlid
Oregon Graduate Institute, Portland
Sulfonylurea receptor of the mitochondrial KATP channel

Odile Gateau-Roesch
Universite Lyon 1, France
Isolation and properties of the Ca2+-activated channel from rat liver mitochondria
Evidence for the presence of cross-reacting-determinant epitope associated with mitochondrial proteins

M. Mar Gonzalez-Barroso
CSIC, Valazquez 144, Madrid, Spain
Pore-like properties in a mutant of the uncoupling protein

Mercedes Grijalba
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
Calcium-induced lipid phase separations in bovine heart sub-mitochondrial particles

Karlene Gunter
University of Rochester Medical School
Further characteristics of the rapid mode (RAM) of calcium uptake into liver mitochondria
Heart mitochondria show a rapid mode of Ca2+ uptake

Regulation of mitochondrial Ca2+ efflux
A comparison of the uniporter and the RAM in heart and liver mitochondria

Thomas Gunter
University of Rochester Medical School
Further characteristics of the rapid mode (RAM) of calcium uptake into liver mitochondria
Heart mitochondria show a rapid mode of Ca2+ uptake
A comparison of the uniporter and the RAM in heart and liver mitochondria

Regulation of mitochondrial Ca2+ efflux

David Gurley
Astra Research Corp., Rochester, NY

Klaus Herick
Institute for Biotechnology, Germany
Patch-clamp studies of the reconstituted phosphate carrier from yeast mitochondria

Jan Hoek
Thomas Jefferson University

Shugui Huang
Institute of Physical Biochemisty, University of Munich, Germany
Mitochondrial carriers in pore formation, the ADP/ATP carrier and the uncoupling protein
Ion channel behavior of the uncoupling protein (UCP) from brown adipose tissue mitochondria

Marjan Huizing
University Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Involvement of the voltage-dependent anion channel (VDAC) in human mitochondrial disorders

Francois Ichas
Universite Bordeaux II, France
Mitochondrial Ca2+-induced Ca2+ release amplifies inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate-dependent Ca2+ signals

Cesare Indiveri
CNR Bari, Italy
Recent studies on the mitochondrial ornithine and carnitine carrier proteins

Robert Jensen
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Laurence Jouaville
Universite Bordeaux II, France
Mitochondrial Ca2+-induced Ca2+ release amplifies inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate-dependent Ca2+ signals

Ron Kaplan
University of South Alabama
Construction and functional characterization of a cysteine-less yeast mitochondrial citrate transport protein

Goran Karlsson
Stockholm University, Sweden
Porin A binding site for MAP2

Christiane Keriel
University Joseph Fourier - Grenoble, France
Polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) deficiency affects mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation and hepatocyte metabolism

Kathleen Kinnally
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
A high-conductance channel, MCC, is associated with tim23, a component of the protein import complex in the mitochondrial inner membrane

Martin Klingenberg
University of Munich, Germany
Mitochondrial carriers in pore formation, the ADP/ATP carrier and the uncoupling protein
Ion channel behavior of the uncoupling protein (UCP) from brown adipose tissue mitochondria
Ca2+ dependent conversion of the mitochondrial ADP/ATP carrier into a large low selective channel

Jordan Kolarov
Comenius University, Slovakia
The regulation of AAC isogenes encoding ADP/ATP carrier in yeast: Multiplicity of mitochondrial ADP/ATP carriers may be implicated in the ability of some yeast to grow under strictly anaerobic conditions

Daniel Koppel
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Effect of an N-terminal 8-amino acid deletion on the structure and function of yeast VDAC

Alicia Kowaltowski
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
Mitochondrial oxidative stress and membrane permeability transition: Conditions leading to irreversible inner membrane permeabilization in the presence of Ca2+

Reinhard Kraemer
Inst. Biotechnology, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
Structure-function correlation in the reconstituted phosphate carrier of mitochondria from beef heart and S. cerevisiae
Patch-clamp studies of the reconstituted phosphate carrier from yeast mitochondria

John Lemasters
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The mitochondrial permeability transition in toxic, hypoxic and reperfusion injury
Mitochondrial calcium transients during the excitation- contraction cycle in cultured cardiac myocytes
Mechanisms of mitochondrial injury during oxidative stress and overstimulation of glutamate receptors: Evidence of the mitochondrial permeability transition

Jean-Francois Leterrier
University of Angers, France
Porin-rich domains of rat brain mitochondria contain binding sites for microtubule-associated protein 2 (MAP2), kinesin and hexokinase

Xavier Leverve
University of Grenoble, France
Polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) deficiency affects mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation and hepatocyte metabolism
Porin A binding site for MAP2

Christiane Levrat
Universite Lyon 1, France
Increase of mitochondrial PLA2-released fatty acids is an early event in tumor necrosis factor a-treated WEHI-164 cells

Monica Linden
Stockholm University, Sweden
Porin-rich domains of rat brain mitochondria contain binding sites from microtubule-associated protein (MAP2), kinesin and hexokinase
Porin a binding site for MAP2

Leslie Loew
University of Connecticut Health Center
Determination of mitochondrial membrane potential in single living cells using confocal microscope images

Francesco Macri
University of Udine, Italy
Comparative study on plant mitochondrial and tonoplast pyrophosphatases
Zearalenone-induced uncoupling in pea mitochondria is reversed by 6-ketocholestanol

V.T. Maddaiah
Nassau County Medical Center
Effects of growth and thyroid hormones on calcium transport and permeability transition of liver mitochondria

Carmen Mannella
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Three-dimensional structure of rat-liver mitochondria: Interactions of the outer membrane with the inner membrane and endoplasmic reticulum
Effect of an N-terminal 8-amino acid deletion on the structure and function of yeast VDAC
Topology of VDAC in the outer membrane of Neurospora crassa mitochondria

Emanuel Margoliash
University of Illinois at Chicago
The interaction of apocytochrome c with mitochondria

Roy McCauley
Wayne State University, Detroit
The membrane assembly of mitochondrial VDAC

Maureen McEnery
Case Western Reserve University

Jan Michejda
Poznan University, Poland
Rescue channel for metabolites in porin-less mitochondria

Anne Murphy
The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington
Effects of bcl-2 on mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake capacity and membrane potential

Robert Murphy
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Anna-Liisa Nieminen
Case Western Reserve University
Mechanisms of mitochondrial injury during oxidative stress and overstimulation of glutamate receptors: Evidence of the mitochondrial permeability transition

Carlos Palmeira
University of Minnesota School of Medicine
Benzyquinone inhibits the oxidant-induced shift in voltage gating potential of the mitochondrial permeability transition pore caused by naphthoquinones

Guy Perkins
San Diego State University
Mitochondrial structure and compartmentation

Birgit Popp
CIBA Biochem. IC, Basel, Switzerland
The role of the N- and C-termini of recombinant neurospora mitochondrial porin in channel formation and voltage-dependent gating
Study of structure and function of recombinant pea root plastid porin by biophysical methods

Donald J. Reed
Oregon State University

Susanne Reymann
Max Planck Institute, Gottingen, Germany
Evidence for a switch in the expression level of Type-1 and Type-2 eukaryotic porin in the vertebrate line

Eduardo Rial
CIB - CSIC, Velazquez 144, 28006 Madrid, Spain
Pore-like properties in a mutant of the uncoupling protein

Lawrence D. Robb-Gaspers
Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA
Spatial and temporal regulation of mitochondrial energy metabolism in the intact liver
Regulation of mitochondrial function by cytosolic calcium oscillations

Beate Rohm
Max Planck Institute, Gottingen, Germany
Taurine passing human porin makes the channel a candidate for the volume-sensitive organic osmolyte-anion channel (VSOAC)

Hagai Rottenberg
Hahnemann University, Philadelphia
Mitochondrial dysfunction in lymphocytes from old mice is associated with enhanced activation of the permeability transition pore

Wim Ruitenbeek
University Hospital Nijmegen, The Netherlands
On the involvement of membrane-bound transport systems in disorders of the mitochondrial energy metabolism
Involvement of the voltage-dependent anion channel (VDAC) in human mitochondrial disorders

James Russell
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
Mitochondrial location and activity regulate Ca2+ wave characteristics in oligodendrocytes

Valdur Saks
Inst. Chemical and Biological Physics, Estonia
Outer mitochondrial membrane as a site of ADP and energy flux control in the cells in vivo - possible role of cytoskeleton-mitochondrial contacts
Mitochondrial creatine kinase isoform expression does not correlate with its mode of action

Margaret Sampson
Baylor College of Medicine
Molecular genetic approaches to VDAC function

Nils-Erik Saris
University of Helsinki, Finland
Isolation and properties of the Ca2+-activated channel from rat liver mitochondria
Regulation of the permeability transition in Ehrlich ascites tumour cell mitochondria
Partial purification and properties of the mitochondrial calcium uniporter

Jorgina Satrustegui
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Affinity chromatography purification of mitochondrial inner membrane proteins with calcium transport activity: A partially purified calcium uniporter?

Uwe Schlattner
ETH-Honggerberg, Switzerland
Human mitochondrial creatine kinase

Detlef Siemen
Christian Albrechts University, Germany
Does the pharmacology of the 108 pS channel of the inner mitochondrial membrane compare with IMAC data?

Peter Simpson
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
Mitochondrial location and activity regulate Ca2+ wave characteristics in oligodendrocytes

Francis Sluse
Universite de Liege, Belgium
Metabolite carriers in mitochondria: Beyond the simple kinetics, molecular model, and regulation

Mitchell D. Smith
Wayne State University, Detroit
The membrane assembly of mitochondrial VDAC

Pat Sokolove
University of Maryland School of Medicine

M. Catia Sorgato
Universita de Padova, Italy

Genevieve Sparagna
University of Connecticut Health Center
Determination of mitochondrial membrane potential in single living cells using confocal microscope images
Further characteristics of the rapid mode (RAM) of calcium uptake into liver mitochondria
Heart mitochondria show a rapid mode of Ca2+ uptake
A comparison of the uniporter and the RAM in heart and liver mitochondria

Scott Stanley
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Topology of VDAC in the outer membrane of Neurospora crassa mitochondria

Adam Szewczyk
Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland

Henry Tedeschi
State University of New York at Albany

Andrew Thomas
Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia
Regulation of mitochondrial function by cytosolic calcium oscillations
Spatial and temporal regulation of mitochondrial energy metabolism in the intact liver

Anibal Vercesi
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
Plant uncoupling mitochondrial protein allows for purine nucleotide-sensitive uniport of fatty acids and alkylsulfonates
Calcium-induced lipid phase separations in bovine heart sub-mitochondrial particles
Mitochondrial oxidative stress and membrane permeability transition: Conditions leading to irreversible inner membrane permeabilization in the presence of Ca2+

Angelo Vianello
University of Udine, Italy
Zearalenone-induced uncoupling in pea mitochondria is reversed by 6-ketocholestanol
Comparative study on plant mitochondrial and tonoplast pyrophosphatases

Kendall B. Wallace
University of Minnesota School of Medicine
Benzoquinone inhibits the oxidant-induced shift in voltage gating potential of the mitochondrial permeability transition pore caused by naphthoquinones

Yvonne Will
Oregon State University

Hartmut Wohlrab
Boston Biomedical Research Institute
Structure-function correlation in the reconstituted phosphate carrier of mitochondria from beef heart and S. cerevisiae

Grazyna Wojcik
Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Poland

Martin Zizi
KU Leuven, Belgium
Functional differences between reconstituted wheat voltage- dependent anion channel isoforms (VDAC)
Molecular and functional characterization of wheat voltage dependent anion channels (VDAC)

Mario Zoratti
University of Padova, Italy
The presence of VDAC allows DNA translocation across planar bilayer membranes

Dmitry Zorov
Moscow State University, Moscow
To the functions of the permeability transition pore

Renata Zvyagilskaya
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
The Ca2+-transport system of yeast mitochondria: Properties, regulation and possible physiological implications
Yeast mitochondria offer a new view of seemingly solved bioenergy problems

 


For further information please contact... Carmen Mannella: carmen@wadsworth.org, Last change: Aug 29, 1996