LETM1, deleted in Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome is required for normal mitochondrial morphology and cellular viability

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 201-214

  Dimmer, Kai Stefan ^a   Navoni, Francesca ^a   Casarin, Alberto ^b   Trevisson, Eva ^b   Endele, Sabine ^b   Winterpacht, Andreas ^c   Salviati, Leonardo ^b   Scorrano, Luca ^a,d  

^a VENETIAN INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^d Istituto Veneto di Medicina Molecolare   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; NIGERICIN; POTASSIUM PROTON EXCHANGE PROTEIN; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN LETM 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; GENE DELETION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RESPIRATORY CHAIN; WOLF HIRSCHHORN SYNDROME;

CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CELL SURVIVAL; FIBROBLASTS; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANES; NECROSIS; ORGANELLE SHAPE; WOLF-HIRSCHHORN SYNDROME;

EID: 37849038285     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddm297     Document Type: Article

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