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On the relevance of mitochondrial fusions for the accumulation of mitochondrial deletion mutants: a modelling study.
Aging cell - 1 Oct 2005
Kowald Axel, Jendrach Marina, Pohl Sandra, Bereiter-Hahn Jürgen, Hammerstein Peter
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The molecular mechanisms underlying the aging process are still unclear, but the clonal accumulation of mitochondrial deletion mutants is one of the prime candidates. An important question for the mitochondrial theory of aging is to discover how defective organelles might be selected at the expense of wild-type mitochondria. We propose that mitochondrial fission and fusion events are of critical importance for...
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