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SUBMITTER: Koulintchenko M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC151061 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The EMBO journal 20030301 6
Plant mitochondria are remarkable with respect to their content in foreign, alien and plasmid-like DNA, raising the question of the transfer of this information into the organelles. We demonstrate the existence of an active, transmembrane potential-dependent mechanism of DNA uptake into plant mitochondria. The process is restricted to double-strand DNA, but has no obvious sequence specificity. It is most efficient with linear fragments up to a few kilobase pairs. When containing appropriate info ...[more]