LETM1 in mitochondrial cation transport

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 5 FEB, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Nowikovsky, Karin ^a   Bernardi, Paolo ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cation transport proteins; LETM1; Mitochondria; Wolf Hirschhorn syndrome

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; HYDROGEN POTASSIUM ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; POTASSIUM ION; PROTEIN LETM1; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALINOMYCIN;

CALCIUM DEPLETION; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CATION TRANSPORT; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; LETM1GENE; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MITOCHONDRION; NOTE; PH; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 84895428148     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2014.00083     Document Type: Note

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