Molecular genetics of ubiquinone biosynthesis in animals

Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 69-88

  Wang, Ying ^a   Hekimi, Siegfried ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coenzyme Q; COQ genes; Human patients; Metazoan model systems; Ubiquinone biosynthesis; Ubiquinone deficiency; Unicellular model systems

Indexed keywords

REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE (UBIQUINONE); UBIQUINONE;

ALLELE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPLEX I DEFICIENCY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

ANIMALS; ATAXIA; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASES; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; UBIQUINONE;

EID: 84872966586     PISSN: 10409238     EISSN: 15497798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10409238.2012.741564     Document Type: Review

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