The approaches for manipulating mitochondrial proteome

Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 451-461

  Shokolenko, Inna N ^a   Alexeyev, Mikhail F ^a   Ledoux, Susan P ^a   Wilson, Glenn L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Mitochondrial manipulation; Mitochondrial proteome; Protein targeting; Protein therapy

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEOME;

CELL NUCLEUS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW;

DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTEOME;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 77953530666     PISSN: 08936692     EISSN: 10982280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/em.20570     Document Type: Review

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