Mitochondria: Starving to reach quorum?: Insight into the physiological purpose of mitochondrial fusion

BioEssays

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 272-274

  Picard, Martin ^a   Burelle, Yan ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MITOFUSIN 1; MITOFUSIN 2;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; GENE EXPRESSION; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OXIDATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE FUSION; MITOCHONDRIA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84858282142     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201100179     Document Type: Note

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