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A vital function for mitochondrial DNA in the petite-negative yeast Kluyveromyces lactis.
Molecular & general genetics : MGG - 28 Oct 1996
Clark-Walker G D, Chen X J
Abstract excerpt
Petite-negative yeasts do not form viable respiratory-deficient mutants on treatment with DNA-targeting drugs that readily eliminate the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from petite-positive yeasts. However, in the petite-negative yeast Kluyveromyces lactis, specific mutations in the nuclear genes MG12 and MG15 encoding the alpha- and gamma-subunits of the mitochondrial F1-ATPase, allow mtDNA to be lost. In this study...
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