Homeostatic Responses Regulate Selfish Mitochondrial Genome Dynamics in C. elegans

Cell Metabolism

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 91-103

  Gitschlag, Bryan L ^a   Kirby, Cait S ^a   Samuels, David C ^b,c   Gangula, Rama D ^b   Mallal, Simon A ^b,d   Patel, Maulik R ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

C. elegans; droplet digital PCR; evolution; heteroplasmy; mitochondrial unfolded protein response; mitophagy; mtDNA; mtDNA copy number control; selfish genetic element

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA REPLICATION; HETEROPLASMY; HOMEOSTASIS; MITOCHONDRIAL DYNAMICS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MITOPHAGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNFOLDED PROTEIN RESPONSE; ANIMAL; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; MUTATION; RNA INTERFERENCE;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; HOMEOSTASIS; MITOCHONDRIAL DYNAMICS; MUTATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UNFOLDED PROTEIN RESPONSE;

EID: 84992437414     PISSN: 15504131     EISSN: 19327420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2016.06.008     Document Type: Article

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