Article
CLD1 Reverses the Ubiquinone Insufficiency of Mutant cat5/coq7 in a Saccharomyces cerevisiae Model System.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Kar Adwitiya, Beam Haley, Borror Megan B, Luckow Michael, Gao Xiaoli, Rea Shane L
Abstract excerpt
Ubiquinone (Qn) functions as a mobile electron carrier in mitochondria. In humans, Q biosynthetic pathway mutations lead to Q10 deficiency, a life threatening disorder. We have used a Saccharomyces cerevisiae model of Q6 deficiency to screen for new modulators of ubiquinone biosynthesis. We generated several hypomorphic alleles of coq7/cat5 (clk-1 in Caenorhabditis elegans) encoding the penultimate enzyme in Q...
Topics
- Alleles
- Cardiolipins
- Genes, Suppressor
- Lysophospholipids
- Models, Biological
- Mutation
- Phospholipases
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins
- Suppression, Genetic
