Mitochondrion (redirect from Mitochondria)
mitochondrion (pl. mitochondria) is an organelle found in the cells of most eukaryotes, such as animals, plants and fungi. Mitochondria have a double membrane...
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Mitochondrial DNA (redirect from Mitochondria DNA)
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA and mDNA) is the DNA located in the mitochondria organelles in a eukaryotic cell that converts chemical energy from food into...
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Eukaryote (section Mitochondria)
anaerobic Asgard archaean and an aerobic proteobacterium, which formed the mitochondria. A second episode of symbiogenesis with a cyanobacterium created the...
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Symbiogenesis (section Mitochondria)
of eukaryotic cells from prokaryotic organisms. The theory holds that mitochondria, plastids such as chloroplasts, and possibly other organelles of eukaryotic...
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Mitochondrial disease (redirect from Mitochondria disease)
disease is a group of disorders caused by mitochondrial dysfunction. Mitochondria are the organelles that generate energy for the cell and are found in...
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plants, animals, and fungi. Eukaryotic cells contain organelles including mitochondria, which provide energy for cell functions; chloroplasts, which create...
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"Mitochondria" is Kenichi Suzumura's third single, released on February 4, 2009. It came with a disc with the PV of the title track "Mitochondria", and...
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Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life is a 2005 popular science book by Nick Lane of University College London, which argues that mitochondria are...
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method of pyruvate production in glycolysis, and requires pyruvate to the mitochondria in order to be fully oxidized by the citric acid cycle. The products...
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Extranuclear inheritance (section Mutant mitochondria)
cytoplasmic organelles such as mitochondria and chloroplasts or from cellular parasites like viruses or bacteria. Mitochondria are organelles which function...
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Mitochondrial Eve (redirect from Mitochondria Eve)
estimated by scientists. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA, the DNA located in mitochondria, different from the DNA in the nucleus of a cell) and Y-chromosome DNA...
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carnitine which is used by the body to transport fatty acids into the mitochondria for breakdown and energy production. Carnitine is both a nutrient and...
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Mitochondria-associated membranes (MAMs) represent regions of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) which are reversibly tethered to mitochondria. These membranes...
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better knowledge of mitochondria's significance in cell biology because of the discovery of cell signaling pathways by mitochondria which are crucial platforms...
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mutations because of the genetic bottleneck, where only a few out of many mitochondria actually are passed on to offspring. The mussel Mytilus edulis is an...
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functions. Unlike the IMS of the mitochondria, the IMS of the chloroplast does not seem to have any obvious function. Mitochondria are surrounded by two membranes;...
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in human mitochondria). The human mitochondrial genome is the entirety of hereditary information contained in human mitochondria. Mitochondria are small...
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Translocator protein (redirect from Mitochondria benzodiazepine receptors)
(steroidogenic acute regulatory protein) to transport cholesterol into mitochondria, though evidence is mixed. In animals, TSPO (PBR) is a mitochondrial...
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females of this tick species. These bacteria have been observed in the mitochondria of the host cells, a trait that has never been described in any other...
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Lactate shuttle hypothesis (section Mitochondria)
kidney, and heart mitochondria. It was also found that lactate could be oxidized as quickly as pyruvate in rat liver mitochondria. Because lactate can...
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maintain a balance. Some forms of the NAD+ kinase, notably the one in mitochondria, can also accept NADH to turn it directly into NADPH. The prokaryotic...
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self-replicate is rooted in its evolutionary history. It is commonly thought that mitochondria descend from cells that formed endosymbiotic relationships with α-protobacteria;...
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Cyanocobalamin (section In mitochondria)
vitamin B 12 are methylcobalamin in cytosol and adenosylcobalamin in mitochondria. Multivitamins often contain cyanocobalamin, which is presumably converted...
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Apoptosis-inducing factor, mitochondria-associated 3 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the AIFM3 gene. GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000183773...
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reliance on an exclusively anaerobic metabolism as well as its lack of mitochondria and mitochondrial DNA. It is the only known multicellular animal that...
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mitochondrial ribosome, or mitoribosome, is a protein complex that is active in mitochondria and functions as a riboprotein for translating mitochondrial mRNAs encoded...
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The origin of the Sámi has been of research interest since at least the early 17th century. Initially, the Sámi were grouped together with ethnic Finns...
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domain: Eukaryota. Prokaryotes evolved before eukaryotes, and lack nuclei, mitochondria, and most of the other distinct organelles that characterize the eukaryotic...
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Progeria (section Mitochondria)
progerin also leads to the accumulation of dysfunctional mitochondria within the cell. These mitochondria are characterized by a swollen morphology, caused by...
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a nucleus, at least one centriole and cilium, facultatively aerobic mitochondria, sex (meiosis and syngamy), a dormant cyst with a cell wall of chitin...
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