The amyloid-β peptide (Aβ) is suggested to cause mitochondrial dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease. The mitochondrial dehydrogenase SDR5C1 (also known as ABAD) was shown to bind Aβ and was proposed to thereby mediate mitochondrial toxicity, but the molecular mechanism has not been clarified. We recently identified SDR5C1 as an essential component of human mitochondrial RNase P and its associated...

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is both a major crop species and the key model grass for molecular and physiological research. Mitochondria are important in rice, as in all crops, as the main source of ATP for cell maintenance and growth. However, the practical significance of understanding the function of mitochondria in rice is increased by the widespread farming practice of using hybrids to boost ric...

the present study was designed to investigate the immunomodulatory activity of the ethanolic extract of tinospora cordifolia (family: menispermaceae)stem (climbing shrub, mango plant) at cellular level. for antioxidant study, the liver mitochondria were separated and the concentration of enzymes like lipid peroxidation (lpo), reduced glutathione (gsh), catalase (cat) and superoxide dismutase (s...

Mitochondrial forms of uracil DNA glycosylase and UV endonuclease have been purified and characterized from the mouse plasmacytoma cell line, MPC-11. As in other cell types, the mitochondrial uracil DNA glycosylase has properties very similar to those of the nuclear enzyme, although in this case the mitochondrial activity was also distinguishable by extreme sensitivity to dilution. Three mitoch...

The human mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) encodes 22 tRNAs (mt-tRNAs) that are necessary for the intraorganellar translation of the 13 mtDNA-encoded subunits of the mitochondrial respiratory chain complexes. Maturation of mt-tRNAs involves 5' and 3' nucleolytic excision from precursor RNAs, as well as extensive post-transcriptional modifications. Recent data suggest that over 7% of all mt-tRNA res...

We recently showed that melatonin counteracted mitochondrial oxidative stress and increased the activity of the mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) enzymes both in vivo and in vitro. To further clarify these effects, we studied here the activity of OXPHOS enzymes and the synthesis of ATP in rat liver and brain mitochondria in vitro. In sub-mitochondrial particles, melatonin increas...