Mitochondrial protein synthesis: Figuring the fundamentals, complexities and complications, of mammalian mitochondrial translation

FEBS Letters

Volumn 588, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 2496-2503

  Lightowlers, Robert N ^a   Rozanska, Agata ^a   Chrzanowska Lightowlers, Zofia M ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Mitochondria; Ribosomes; RNA; Translation

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE;

HUMAN; MAMMAL; MITOCHONDRIAL RIBOSOME; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RNA TRANSLATION;

MAMMALIA;

GENE EXPRESSION; MITOCHONDRIA; RIBOSOMES; RNA; TRANSLATION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RIBOSOMES; RNA;

EID: 84904265044     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: 18733468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2014.05.054     Document Type: Review

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