To study whether increase in mitochondrial oxidative stress (SOD2 removal) and decrease in mitochondrial DNA repair (Ogg1 dMTS) results into increase in mitochondrial DNA mutation load. Oxidative stress has been suggested to induce mutations in mtDNA. To verify this, we extracted and sequenced (Illu...
Studying whether removal of base-excision repair from mitochondria will result into increase in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutation load. The endogenous genes of OGG1 and MUTYH DNA glycosylases were modified to lack the genomic region encoding for the predicted mitochondrial targeting sequence. The m...
To study whether increase in mitochondrial oxidative stress (SOD2 removal) and decrease in mitochondrial DNA repair (Ogg1 dMTS) results into increase in mutations in mitochondrial RNA (mtRNA). Oxidative stress has been suggested to induce mutations in mtDNA and as DNA is used as a template in transc...
In this study, we present the first genome-wide recombination map for mitochondrial DNA in yeast. We also assess the impact of the genetic background and of several gene deletions on the recombination profiles.
This is a custom Affymetrix resequencing array for DNA sequencing of the entire coding region and exon-splice sites of 39 human genes (452 exons; 106,337 bases). These nuclear genes encode proteins localized to mitochondria and include known disease genes (i.e. POLG, C10orf2) and new candidate genes...
We used high throughput EST sequences to characterize and generate expression profiles for all transcripts encoded in the mitochondrial genome of D. melanogaster and D. pseudoobscura. Mapping of ESTs confirmed previously predicted transcripts and revealed non-canonical transcript structures. Express...
Mitochondrial genomes are separated from the nuclear genome for most of the cell cycle by the nuclear double membrane, intervening cytoplasm and the mitochondrial double membrane. Despite these physical barriers we show that somatically acquired mitochondrial-nuclear genome fusion sequences are pres...
Mitochondrial dysfunction is a common feature in neurodegeneration and aging. We identify mitochondrial dysfunction in xeroderma pigmentosum group A (XPA), a nucleotide excision DNA repair disorder with severe neurodegeneration, in silico and in vivo. XPA deficient cells show defective mitophagy wit...
