sentence: The vast majority of studies involving VDAC in a wide variety of mitochondria-associated pathologies focuses exclusively on VDAC1 or VDAC2 , while VDAC3 channels remain poorly characterized ( Shoshan-Barmatz and Ben-Hail , 2012 ; Reina et al ., 2016b ; Camara et al ., 2017 ; Maurya and Mahalakshmi , 2017 ; Shoshan-Barmatz et al ., 2017 ) .