Mitochondrial transcription and translation: overview

AR D'Souza, M Minczuk - Essays in biochemistry, 2018 - portlandpress.com
Mitochondria are the major source of ATP in the cell. Five multi-subunit complexes in the
inner membrane of the organelle are involved in the oxidative phosphorylation required for …

RNA ribose methylation (2′-O-methylation): Occurrence, biosynthesis and biological functions

L Ayadi, A Galvanin, F Pichot, V Marchand… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2019 - Elsevier
Methylation of riboses at 2′-OH group is one of the most common RNA modifications found
in number of cellular RNAs from almost any species which belong to all three life domains …

Reproducible genetic risk loci for anxiety: results from∼ 200,000 participants in the Million Veteran Program

DF Levey, J Gelernter, R Polimanti… - American Journal of …, 2020 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: Anxiety disorders are common and often disabling. The goal of this study was to
examine the genetic architecture of anxiety disorders and anxiety symptoms, which are also …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanism of mitoribosomal small subunit biogenesis and preinitiation

Y Itoh, A Khawaja, I Laptev, M Cipullo, I Atanassov… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Mitoribosomes are essential for the synthesis and maintenance of bioenergetic proteins.
Here we use cryo-electron microscopy to determine a series of the small mitoribosomal …

Mitochondrial RNA granules are centers for posttranscriptional RNA processing and ribosome biogenesis

H Antonicka, EA Shoubridge - Cell reports, 2015 - cell.com
Cytoplasmic RNA granules play a central role in mRNA metabolism, but the importance of
mitochondrial RNA granules remains relatively unexplored. We characterized their …

Linear mitochondrial DNA is rapidly degraded by components of the replication machinery

V Peeva, D Blei, G Trombly, S Corsi… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Emerging gene therapy approaches that aim to eliminate pathogenic mutations of
mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) rely on efficient degradation of linearized mtDNA, but the …

Regulation of mammalian mitochondrial gene expression: recent advances

SF Pearce, P Rebelo-Guiomar, AR D'Souza… - Trends in biochemical …, 2017 - cell.com
Perturbation of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) gene expression can lead to human
pathologies. Therefore, a greater appreciation of the basic mechanisms of mitochondrial …

Mitochondrial ribosome assembly in health and disease

D De Silva, YT Tu, A Amunts, F Fontanesi… - Cell Cycle, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The ribosome is a structurally and functionally conserved macromolecular machine
universally responsible for catalyzing protein synthesis. Within eukaryotic cells, mitochondria …

Mitochondrial ribosomes in cancer

HJ Kim, P Maiti, A Barrientos - Seminars in cancer biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Mitochondria play fundamental roles in the regulation of life and death of eukaryotic cells.
They mediate aerobic energy conversion through the oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) …

Structural basis of GTPase-mediated mitochondrial ribosome biogenesis and recycling

HS Hillen, E Lavdovskaia, F Nadler, E Hanitsch… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Ribosome biogenesis requires auxiliary factors to promote folding and assembly of
ribosomal proteins and RNA. Particularly, maturation of the peptidyl transferase center (PTC) …