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. 1989 Apr 28;160(2):765-71.
doi: 10.1016/0006-291x(89)92499-6.

Heteroplasmy of mitochondrial genomes in clonal cultures from patients with Kearns-Sayre syndrome

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Heteroplasmy of mitochondrial genomes in clonal cultures from patients with Kearns-Sayre syndrome

C T Moraes et al. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. .

Abstract

We have analyzed heteroplasmy of mitochondrial DNA in clonal cultures from two patients with Kearns-Sayre syndrome, and have found that individual muscle or fibroblast clones contained either a mixed (i.e. heteroplasmic) population of normal and deleted mitochondrial DNAs, or only normal mitochondrial DNAs (i.e. homoplasmic at a level of detection of less than 1% deleted genomes). The heteroplasmic clones grew significantly more slowly than did "homoplasmic" clones, probably due to defects of respiratory chain enzymes containing mtDNA-encoded polypeptides.

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