Aging is a complex process that features a functional decline in many organelles. Although
mitochondrial dysfunction is suggested as one of the determining factors of aging, the role of …

Mitochondria are cellular organelles responsible for generation of chemical energy in the
process called oxidative phosphorylation. They originate from a bacterial ancestor and …

The study of plant mitochondria started in earnest around 1950 with the first isolations of
mitochondria from animal and plant tissues. The first 35 years were spent establishing the …

Mitochondria are the powerhouse of eukaryotic cells. They possess their own gene
expression machineries where highly divergent and specialized ribosomes, named …

Plant mitochondria are indispensable for plant metabolism and are tightly integrated into
cellular homeostasis. This review provides an update on the latest research concerning the …

Kinetoplastids are unicellular eukaryotic parasites responsible for such human pathologies
as Chagas disease, sleeping sickness, and leishmaniasis. They have a single large …

Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) is one of the oldest fruits with edible, medicinal and
ornamental values. However, there is no report on the mitochondrial genome of …

Mitochondrial ribosomes are complex molecular machines indispensable for respiration.
Their assembly involves the import of several dozens of mitochondrial ribosomal proteins …

Introduction With its distinctive evolutionary rate and inheritance patterns separate from the
nuclear genome, mitochondrial genome analysis has become a prominent focus of current …

The mitochondrial ribosome (mitoribosome) has diverged drastically from its evolutionary
progenitor, the bacterial ribosome. Structural and compositional diversity is particularly …