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Nuclear genes and mitochondrial translation: a new class of genetic disease.
Trends in genetics : TIG - 1 Jun 2005
Jacobs Howard T, Turnbull Douglass M
Abstract excerpt
Mitochondria contain a separate protein-synthesis machinery to produce the polypeptides encoded in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), and many mtDNA disease mutations affect this machinery. In humans, the mitochondrial rRNAs and tRNAs are encoded by mtDNA, whereas all proteins involved in mitochondrial translation are encoded by nuclear genes. Recently, several articles have discussed the identification of pathological...
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