“…Calcium enters into mitochondria through the VDAC channel localized on the outer membrane (Tan and Colombini, 2007), and is transported across the intermembrane space and the inner membrane into the matrix by the mitochondrial calcium uniporter (MCU) and its docking/regulatory proteins MICU1/MICU2 (Tan and Colombini, 2007). Similarly, calcium is exported from the mitochondrial matrix through LETM1 or the Na + /Ca 2+ exchanger NCLX, in exchange for H + or Na + /Li + , respectively and, then, across the outer membrane through VDAC and the isoform 3 of the sodium calcium exchanger (NCX3; Tan and Colombini, 2007;Scorziello et al, 2013;Anderson et al, 2019). In PD neurons, the activation of mitochondrial Na + /Ca 2+ exchanger (mNCX) is the primary mechanism by which mitochondrial calcium concentrations [Ca 2+ ] m is returned to the cytoplasm, and therefore it is critical to a multitude of Ca 2+ -dependent processes including neurotransmitters release, synaptic plasticity, bioenergetics and mitochondrial nitric oxide (NO), and reactive oxygen species (ROS) production (Castaldo et al, 2009;Cali et al, 2013).…”