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Somatic alterations in mitochondrial DNA produce changes in cell growth and metabolism supporting a tumorigenic phenotype.
Biochimica et biophysica acta - 1 Feb 2012
Jandova Jana, Shi Mingjian, Norman Kimberly G, Stricklin George P, Sligh James E
Abstract excerpt
There have been many reports of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations associated with human malignancies. We have observed allelic instability in UV-induced cutaneous tumors at the mt-Tr locus encoding the mitochondrial tRNA for arginine. We examined the effects of somatic alterations at this locus by modeling the change in a uniform nuclear background by generating cybrids harboring allelic variation at mt-Tr. We...
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