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Mitochondrial DNA mutations in mutator mice confer respiration defects and B-cell lymphoma development.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Mito Takayuki, Kikkawa Yoshiaki, Shimizu Akinori, Hashizume Osamu, Katada Shun, Imanishi Hirotake, Ota Azusa, Kato Yukina, Nakada Kazuto, Hayashi Jun-Ichi
Abstract excerpt
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutator mice are proposed to express premature aging phenotypes including kyphosis and hair loss (alopecia) due to their carrying a nuclear-encoded mtDNA polymerase with a defective proofreading function, which causes accelerated accumulation of random mutations in mtDNA, resulting in expression of respiration defects. On the contrary, transmitochondrial mito-miceΔ carrying mtDNA with a...
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