Allotopic expression of mitochondrial-encoded genes in mammals: Achieved goal, undemonstrated mechanism or impossible task?

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 225-234

  Perales Clemente, Ester ^a,b   Fernández Silva, Patricio ^b   Acín Pérez, Rebeca ^b   Pérez Martos, Acisclo ^b   Enríquez, Jose Antonio ^a,b  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CARDIOVASCULARES CNIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE 8; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE (UBIQUINONE); UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLOTOPIC EXPRESSION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; INTERNALIZATION; MAMMAL; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 78651344935     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq769     Document Type: Article

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