AT-rich sequences flanking the 5'-end breakpoint of the 4977-bp deletion of human mitochondrial DNA are located between two bent-inducing DNA sequences that assume distorted structure in organello

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 403, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 75-84

  Hou, Jeng Horng ^a   Wei, Yau Huei ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

2 D gel electrophoresis; Bent DNA; Deletion; Gel mobility; Mitochondrial DNA; Osmium tetroxide; Primer extension

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MITOCHONDRIAL MYOPATHY; MITOCHONDRION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL ELECTROPHORESIS;

AGING; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; FREE RADICALS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL MYOPATHIES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OSMIUM TETROXIDE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 0032541048     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0027-5107(98)00054-2     Document Type: Article

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