Mathematical Modeling of the Role of Mitochondrial Fusion and Fission in Mitochondrial DNA Maintenance

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Tam, Zhi Yang ^a   Gruber, Jan ^b,c   Halliwell, Barry ^b   Gunawan, Rudiyanto ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c YALE NUS COLLEGE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; CELL ENERGY; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MITOCHONDRIAL FISSION; MITOCHONDRIAL FUSION; MITOCHONDRION; SEGREGATION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; UPREGULATION;

ALGORITHMS; CLONE CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIAL DYNAMICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84885405451     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076230     Document Type: Article

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