Methods for Efficient Elimination of Mitochondrial DNA from Cultured Cells.

Here, we document that persistent mitochondria DNA (mtDNA) damage due to mitochondrial overexpression of the Y147A mutant uracil-N-glycosylase as well as mitochondrial overexpression of bacterial Exonuclease III or Herpes Simplex Virus protein UL12.5M185 can induce a complete loss of mtDNA (ρ0 pheno...

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Main Authors: Domenico Spadafora, Nataliya Kozhukhar, Vladimir N Chouljenko, Konstantin G Kousoulas, Mikhail F Alexeyev
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4852919?pdf=render