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Moving Ca2+ from the endoplasmic reticulum to mitochondria: is spatial intimacy enough?

A number of studies in recent years have demonstrated that the ER (endoplasmic reticulum) makes intimate contacts with mitochondria, the latter organelles existing both as individual organelles and occasionally as a more extensive interconnected network. Demonstrations that mitochondria take up Ca(2+) more avidly upon its mobilization from the ER than when delivered to permeabilized cells as a buffered solution also indicate that a shielded conduit for Ca(2+) may exist between the two organelle types, perhaps comprising the inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor and mitochondrial outer membrane proteins including the VDAC (voltage-dependent anion channel). Although the existence of such intracellular ER-mitochondria 'synapses', or of an ER-mitochondria Ca(2+) 'translocon', is an exciting idea, more definitive experiments are needed to test this possibility.