... Department of Structural and Functional Biology, and Centre of Neuroscience, University of Insubria, Busto Arsizio, Italy2 Department of Biotechnology, University of Verona, Italy3 Department of Clinical ... specifically linked to one of the major patho-genetic mechanisms of PD [5]. Worthy of note is thecomplete disappearance of the VDAC-2 upon dopa-mine treatment. This porin of the outer mitochondrialmembrane ... Sciences, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy4 Department of Neuroscience, University of Torino, ItalyIntroductionParkinson’s disease (PD) is a sporadic neurodegenera-tive disorder of unknown etiology...