Thursday, March 29, 2012

Research on plants for the understanding of diseases of nuclear and mitochondrial origin

Claudia Spampinato1 and Diego F. Gomez-Casati1,2
1Centro de Estudios Fotosintéticos y Bioquímicos (CEFOBI-CONICET), Universidad
Nacional de Rosario, Suipacha 531, 2000, Rosario, Argentina.
2Universidad Nacional de General San Martín (UNSAM), Av. Gral Paz 5445, San
Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Highlight:
these results allow us to propose Arabidopsis AtFH deficient lines as interesting models for investigate the biogenesis of Fe-S clusters, Fe-S- and heme-containing proteins; as well as for better understanding the FA human disease.