Mitochondrial DNA transcription and diseases: Past, present and future

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics

Volumn 1757, Issue 9-10, 2006, Pages 1179-1189

  Montoya, Julio ^a   López Pérez, Manuel J ^a   Ruiz Pesini, Eduardo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO ARAGONÉS DE CIENCIAS DE LA SALUD   (Spain)

Author keywords

Mitochondrial diseases; Mitochondrial DNA; Mitochondrial transcription; Transcriptional machinery

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFECT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RNA METABOLISM; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 33748983242     PISSN: 00052728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2006.03.023     Document Type: Review

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