How to protect cells from selfish mitochondrial DNA

Thursday, April 20, 2017 - 06:01 in Biology & Nature

Using yeast cells as a model, scientists from the A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University investigated the mechanisms that allow cells to protect themselves from invasion of selfish mitochondrial DNA molecules. The findings were published in the Journal of Cell Science.

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