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Mitochondrial disease in flies.
Biochimica et biophysica acta - 6 Dec 2004
Jacobs Howard T, Fernández-Ayala Daniel J M, Manjiry Shweta, Kemppainen Esko, Toivonen Janne M, O'Dell Kevin M C
Abstract excerpt
The Drosophila mutant technical knockout (tko), affecting the mitochondrial protein synthetic apparatus, exhibits respiratory chain deficiency and a phenotype resembling various features of mitochondrial disease in humans (paralytic seizures, deafness, developmental retardation). We are using this mutant to analyse the cellular and genomic targets of mitochondrial dysfunction, and to identify ways in which the...
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