Why are mitochondria essential for life?

IUBMB Life

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 701-703

  Lill, Roland ^a   Fekete, Zsuzsanna ^b   Sipos, Katalin ^b   Rotte, Carmen ^b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEASE L; ABC TRANSPORTER; ABCE1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; CHAPERONIN; RIBOSOME RNA; RLI1 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BIOGENESIS; CELL VIABILITY; CYTOSOL; EUKARYOTIC CELL; LIFE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA PROCESSING; TRANSLATION INITIATION; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RIBOSOME;

ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTA;

ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; CELL SURVIVAL; CHAPERONINS; HUMANS; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; RIBOSOMES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EID: 27644476969     PISSN: 15216543     EISSN: 15216551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15216540500305860     Document Type: Note

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