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Pathogenic mutations in antisense mitochondrial tRNAs.
Journal of theoretical biology - 21 Jan 2011
Seligmann Hervé
Abstract excerpt
Pathogenic mutations in mitochondrial tRNAs are 6.5 times more frequent than in other mitochondrial genes. This suggests that tRNA mutations perturb more than one function. A potential additional tRNA gene function is that of templating for antisense tRNAs. Pathogenic mutations weaken cloverleaf secondary structures of sense tRNAs. Analyses here show similar effects for most antisense tRNAs, especially after...
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