Arginine methylation of SIRT 7 couples glucose sensing with mitochondria biogenesis

The Biogenesis of Mitochondria

This very brief volume reviews current information about certain biochemical and genetic aspects of mitochondria. The authors concentrate their attention on mitochondria replication, and the genetic specification of mitochondria components. This field is developing rapidly and in most areas the final answers are not available; therefore, new discoveries about the topology of mitochondria DNA an...

The Biogenesis of Mitochondria

Yeast cells grown anaerobically have been shown to vary in their ultrastructure and absorption spectrum depending upon the composition of the growth medium. The changes observed in the anaerobically grown cells are governed by the availability of unsaturated fatty acids and ergosterol and a catabolite or glucose repression. All the cells contain nuclear and plasma membranes, but the extent of t...

Is Mitochondria Biogenesis and Neuronal Loss Prevention in Rat Hippocampus Promoted by Apigenin?

In this Correspondence, a comment to a recent paper by Nikbakht et al., published in the latest ssu of this Journal is reported. The flavone apigenin can exert both its anti-oxidant potetial via the usual enzymatic ROS scavenging system and the mitochondria biogenesis via the PGC-1α/ TFAM/NRF-1 pathway. The very interesting paper by Nikbakht et al, may earn more insighful clues about the activi...

The Biogenesis of Mitochondria in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae

The effects of chloramphenicol on S. cerevisiae and on a cytoplasmic respiratory-deficient mutant derived from the same strain are compared. In the normal yeast, high concentrations of chloramphenicol in the growth medium completely inhibit the formation of cytochromes a, a(3), b, and c(1) and partially inhibit succinate dehydrogenase formation, whereas they do not affect cytochrome c synthesis...

Genetics and Biogenesis of Chloroplasts and Mitochondria