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Can yeast be used to study mitochondrial diseases? Biolistic tRNA mutants for the analysis of mechanisms and suppressors.
Mitochondrion - 1 Nov 2009
De Luca Cristina, Zhou YouFang, Montanari Arianna, Morea Veronica, Oliva Romina, Besagni Celine, Bolotin-Fukuhara Monique, Frontali Laura, Francisci Silvia
Abstract excerpt
Base substitutions equivalent to those causing human pathologies have been introduced in yeast mitochondrial tRNA genes. These mutants can be utilized as flexible tools to investigate the molecular aspects of mitochondrial diseases and identify correcting genes. We show that for all studied tRNA...
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