Correction of the consequences of mitochondrial 3243A>G mutation in the MT-TL1 gene causing the MELAS syndrome by tRNA import into mitochondria

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 8173-8186

  Karicheva, Olga Z ^a,b   Kolesnikova, Olga A ^a,b   Schirtz, Tom ^a   Vysokikh, Mikhail Y ^a,c   Mager Heckel, Anne Marie ^a   Lombs, Anne ^d   Boucheham, Abdeldjalil ^a   Krasheninnikov, Igor A ^b   Martin, Robert P ^a   Entelis, Nina ^a   Tarassov, Ivan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b Department of Molecular Biology   (United States)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d INSTITUT DU CERVEAU ET DE LA MOELLE ÉPINIÈRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; LEUCINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINOACYLATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA ISOLATION; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MELAS SYNDROME; MITOCHONDRION; MT TL1 GENE; MYOBLAST; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RESPIRATORY CHAIN; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA TRANSPORT;

AMINOACYLATION; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CELL RESPIRATION; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; MELAS SYNDROME; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSPORT; RNA, TRANSFER, LEU; RNA, TRANSFER, LYS;

EID: 80054063187     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr546     Document Type: Article

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