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COLD SPRING HARBOR PERSPECTIVES IN BIOLOGY
Volume 4, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
COLD SPRING HARBOR LAB PRESS, PUBLICATIONS DEPT
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a012971
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- Medical Research Council
- European Union
- MRC [MC_U105663140] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [MC_U105663140] Funding Source: researchfish
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Elucidation of the process of DNA replication in mitochondria is in its infancy. For many years, maintenance of the mitochondrial genome was regarded as greatly simplified compared to the nucleus. Mammalian mitochondria were reported to lack all DNA repair systems, to eschew DNA recombination, and to possess but a single DNA polymerase, polymerase gamma. Pol gamma was said to replicate mitochondrial DNA exclusively via one mechanism, involving only two priming events and a handful of proteins. In this strand-displacement model, leading strand DNA synthesis begins at a specific site and advances approximately two-thirds of the way around the molecule before DNA synthesis is initiated on the lagging strand. Although the displaced strand was long-held to be coated with protein, RNA has more recently been proposed in its place. Furthermore, mitochondrial DNA molecules with all the features of products of conventional bidirectional replication have been documented, suggesting that the process and regulation of replication in mitochondria is complex, as befits a genome that is a core factor in human health and longevity.
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