Mitochondria produce some of the proteins they need themselves—with the help of special protein factories called mitoribosomes, which consist of RNA and proteins. Researchers in Göttingen have ...

Dr. Ma's team found that chemical modification of RNA (called RNA methylation) regulates mitochondrial function. Mitochondria ...

Similarly, a homoplasmic mutation in a mitochondrial genome-encoded ribosomal RNA, called RNR1, causes postlingual deafness (deafness that occurs after three years of age, when a child has already ...

Blum, B., Bakalara, N. & Simpson, L. A model for RNA editing in kinetoplastid mitochondria: RNA molecules transcribed from maxicircle DNA provide the edited information. Cell 60, 189–198 (1990).

What’s more, exposing the fish to small doses of rotenone, a natural poison that inhibits mitochondrial function, extended life span in the fish by about 15 percent. “Up to the present, it was thought ...

Mitochondrial deoxyribonucleic acid (mtDNA ... More information: Shigeru Matsuda et al, TEFM facilitates transition from RNA synthesis to DNA synthesis at H-strand replication origin of mtDNA ...