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Cytochrome oxidase in health and disease.
Gene - 6 Mar 2002
Barrientos Antoni, Barros Mario H, Valnot Isabelle, Rötig Agnes, Rustin Pierre, Tzagoloff Alexander
Abstract excerpt
Yeast and bovine cytochrome c oxidases (COX) are composed of 12 and 13 different polypeptides, respectively. In both cases, the three subunits constituting the catalytic core are encoded by mitochondrial DNA. The other subunits are all products of nuclear genes that are translated on cytoplasmic ribosomes and imported through different transport routes into mitochondria. Biogenesis of the functional complex...
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