Article
Mitochondrial disorders.
Medicine - 1 Jan 1998
Zeviani M, Tiranti V, Piantadosi C
Abstract excerpt
Mitochondrial respiration, the most efficient metabolic pathway devoted to energy production, is at the crosspoint of 2 quite different genetic systems, the nuclear genome and the mitochondrial genome (mitochondrial DNA, mtDNA). The latter encodes a few essential components of the mitochondrial r...
Topics
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Gene Deletion
- Humans
- Mitochondrial Myopathies
- Multigene Family
- Phenotype
- Point Mutation
- RNA, Transfer