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Reactive oxygen species stimulate mitochondrial allele segregation toward homoplasmy in human cells.
Molecular biology of the cell - 15 May 2016
Ling Feng, Niu Rong, Hatakeyama Hideyuki, Goto Yu-Ichi, Shibata Takehiko, Yoshida Minoru
Abstract excerpt
Mitochondria that contain a mixture of mutant and wild-type mitochondrial (mt) DNA copies are heteroplasmic. In humans, homoplasmy is restored during early oogenesis and reprogramming of somatic cells, but the mechanism of mt-allele segregation remains unknown. In budding yeast, homoplasmy is restored by head-to-tail concatemer formation in mother cells by reactive oxygen species (ROS)-induced rolling-circle...
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