An Appraisal of Human Mitochondrial DNA Instability: New Insights into the Role of Non-Canonical DNA Structures and Sequence Motifs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Oliveira, Pedro H ^a   Lobato da Silva, Cláudia ^a   Cabral, Joaquim M S ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION FACTOR MTERF; TYROSYLMETHIONYLMETHIONYLTYROSYLMETHIONYLASPARAGYLASPARAGYLMETHIONYLMETHIONYLHISTIDYLMETHIONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA HELIX; DNA SCREENING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BINDING SITES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENE DELETION; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 84875515679     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059907     Document Type: Article

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