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Mitochondrial movement and inheritance in budding yeast.
Gene - 18 Jul 2005
Boldogh Istvan R, Fehrenbacher Kammy L, Yang Hyeong-Cheol, Pon Liza A
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Mitochondria are essential organelles that perform fundamental cellular functions including aerobic energy mobilization, fatty acid oxidation, amino acid metabolism, heme biosynthesis and apoptosis. Mitochondria cannot be synthesized de novo. Therefore, the inheritance of this organelle is an essential part of the cell cycle; that is, daughter cells that do not inherit mitochondria will not survive. The budding...
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