Mitochondrial transcription factor A regulates mitochondrial transcription initiation, DNA packaging, and genome copy number

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms

Volumn 1819, Issue 9-10, 2012, Pages 921-929

  Campbell, Christopher T ^a   Kolesar, Jill E ^a   Kaufman, Brett A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Mitochondrial biogenesis; Mitochondrial gene expression; MtDNA; Nucleoid; Replication; TFAM

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; MITOCHONDRIAL TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR A; RNA POLYMERASE;

BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; DIMERIZATION; DNA BINDING; DNA PACKAGING; DNA SEQUENCE; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC STABILITY; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA REPLICATION; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MITOCHONDRIAL TARGETING SIGNAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

DNA PACKAGING; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84864293013     PISSN: 18749399     EISSN: 18764320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2012.03.002     Document Type: Review

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