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Preferential amplification and phenotypic selection in a population of deleted and wild-type mitochondrial DNA in cultured cells.
Current genetics - 1 Aug 1997
Spelbrink J N, Zwart R, Van Galen M J, Van den Bogert C
Abstract excerpt
In order to study the still poorly understood dynamics of mitochondrial gene segregation, we attempted to alter the percentage of deleted mtDNA (del-mtDNA) over wild-type mtDNA in cell-culture by manipulating respiratory chain capacity. For this purpose, we used a cell-line harbouring a 6-kb mtDNA-deletion which normally was present in 70% of the molecules. The results show that in the presence of low...
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