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Modulating Mitochondrial DNA Heteroplasmy with Mitochondrially Targeted Endonucleases.
Annals of biomedical engineering - 1 Sept 2024
Mikhailov Nikita, Hämäläinen Riikka H
Abstract excerpt
Mitochondria, mainly known as energy factories of eukaryotic cells, also exert several additional signaling and metabolic functions and are today recognized as major cellular biosynthetic and signaling hubs. Mitochondria possess their own genome (mitochondrial DNA-mtDNA), that encodes proteins essential for oxidative phosphorylation, and mutations in it are an important contributor to human disease. The mtDNA...
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