Thursday, May 28, 2015

Nuclear-mitochondrial proteins: too much to process

Nuclear-mitochondrial proteins: too much to process. Rita Horvath , Patrick F. Chinnery, Brain First published online: 26 May 2015, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/brain/awv072 1451-1453



Trinucleotide repeat expansions and point mutations in FXN, which codes for frataxin, cause the most common form of autosomal recessive ataxia—Friedreich’s ataxia—providing a link between PMPCA and the ataxia affecting the 17 patients described by Jobling et al.