Prohibitin family members interact genetically with mitrochondrial inheritance components in Saccharomyces cerevisiae . Mdm12p, a component required for mitoschondrial inheritance that is conserved between budding and fission yeast. J. Cell Biol. Mutational analysis of Mdm1p functions in nuclear and mitochondrial inheritance. J. Cell Biol.
Microtubules mediate mitochondrial distribution in fission yeast.
Michael P. Yaffe received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He was a postdoctoral fellow of the European Molecular Biology Organization at the Biocenter, University of Basel, Switzerland. He was named a Searle Scholar in 1986.