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Mixing and matching mitochondrial aminoacyl synthetases and their tRNAs: a new way to treat respiratory chain disorders?

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EMBO MOLECULAR MEDICINE
Volume 6, Issue 2, Pages 155-157

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WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/emmm.201303586

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  1. Academy of Finland
  2. University of Helsinki
  3. Sigrid Juselius Foundation
  4. U.S. National Institutes of Health [HD32062]
  5. Department of Defense [W911NF-12-1-0159]
  6. Muscular Dystrophy Association
  7. Ellison Medical Foundation
  8. J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation

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Mutations in mitochondrial DNA are an important cause of human disease and from a therapeutic standpoint, these disorders are currently untreatable. New studies now show that a non-cognate mitochondrial aminoacyl tRNA synthetase can overcome the respiratory defect caused by an mt-tRNA mutation and that the isolated carboxy-terminal domain of human mt-leucyl tRNA synthetase can ameliorate the pathologic phenotype.

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