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Cloning of neuronal mtDNA variants in cultured cells by synaptosome fusion with mtDNA-less cells.
Nucleic acids research - 15 May 2000
Trounce I, Schmiedel J, Yen H C, Hosseini S, Brown M D, Olson J J, Wallace D C
Abstract excerpt
Synaptosome cybrids were used to confirm the presence of heteroplasmic mtDNA sequence variants in the human brain. Synaptosomes contain one to several mitochondria, and when fused to mtDNA-deficient (rho degrees ) mouse or human cell lines result in viable cybrid cell lines. The brain origin of mouse synaptosome cybrid mtDNAs was confirmed using sequence polymorphisms in the mtDNA COIII, ND3 and tRNA(Arg)genes....
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