Mitochondria
Paul Horton, Team Leader, Computational Biology Research Center, Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
More by accident than by design, mitochondria have become a common thread joining a fair portion of our group's research. Fortunately, mitochondria are a fascinating subject with practical applications in medicine and energy.
I will introduce our ongoing research into the mitochondrial proteome, its sorting signals, the potential role of mRNA localization of mitochondrial proteins, and an analysis of nuclear copies of the mitochondrial genome (NUMTs). In particular, I will describe:
REFERENCES
Imai et al., BMC Genomics, 12:79, 2011.
Imai et al., Cell 135(7):1158-9, 2008.