Mammalian mitochondrial RNAs are degraded in the mitochondrial intermembrane space by RNASET2

ABSTRACT Mammalian mitochondrial genome encodes a small set of tRNAs, rRNAs, and mRNAs. The RNA synthesis process has been well characterized. How the RNAs are degraded, however, is poorly understood. It was long assumed that the degradation happens in the matrix where transcription and translation...

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Main Authors: Peipei Liu, Jinliang Huang, Qian Zheng, Leiming Xie, Xinping Lu, Jie Jin, Geng Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-07-01
Series:Protein & Cell
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13238-017-0448-9