Natural competence of mammalian mitochondria allows the molecular investigation of mitochondrial gene expression

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 143-154

  Koulintchenko, Milana ^a,b,c   Temperley, Richard J ^a   Mason, Penelope A ^a,d   Dietrich, André ^b   Lightowlers, Robert N ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INST DE BIOL MOLEC DES PLANTES   (France)

^c SIBERIAN INSTITUTE OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TRANSFER RNA;

AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; DNA TRANSFER; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; DNA; DNA REPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VECTORS; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, TRANSFER; TRANSFECTION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 29644437055     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddi435     Document Type: Article

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