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Induced pluripotent stem cells: ex vivo models for human diseases due to mitochondrial DNA mutations.
Journal of biomedical science - 22 Sept 2023
Chen Chao, Guan Min-Xin
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Mitochondria are essential organelles for cellular metabolism and physiology in eukaryotic cells. Human mitochondria have their own genome (mtDNA), which is maternally inherited with 37 genes, encoding 13 polypeptides for oxidative phosphorylation, and 22 tRNAs and 2 rRNAs for translation. mtDNA mutations are associated with a wide spectrum of degenerative and neuromuscular diseases. However, the pathophysiology...
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