Mitochondrial RNA Granules: Compartmentalizing Mitochondrial Gene Expression

Overview

Journal J Cell Biol

Specialty Cell Biology

Date 2016 Mar 9

PMID 26953349

Citations 52

Authors

Alexis A Jourdain

Erik Boehm

Kinsey Maundrell

Jean-Claude Martinou

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Abstract

In mitochondria, DNA replication, gene expression, and RNA degradation machineries coexist within a common nondelimited space, raising the question of how functional compartmentalization of gene expression is achieved. Here, we discuss the recently characterized "mitochondrial RNA granules," mitochondrial subdomains with an emerging role in the regulation of gene expression.

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