Extreme heterogeneity of human mitochondrial DNA from organelles to populations

JB Stewart, PF Chinnery - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Contrary to the long-held view that most humans harbour only identical mitochondrial
genomes, deep resequencing has uncovered unanticipated extreme genetic variation within …

Mitochondrial mutations and mitoepigenetics: Focus on regulation of oxidative stress-induced responses in breast cancers

K Chen, P Lu, NM Beeraka, OA Sukocheva… - Seminars in cancer …, 2022 - Elsevier
Epigenetic regulation of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is an emerging and fast-developing
field of research. Compared to regulation of nucler DNA, mechanisms of mtDNA epigenetic …

One-carbon metabolism: linking nutritional biochemistry to epigenetic programming of long-term development

CE Clare, AH Brassington, WY Kwong… - Annual review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
One-carbon (1C) metabolism comprises a series of interlinking metabolic pathways that
include the methionine and folate cycles that are central to cellular function, providing 1C …

Mitochondrial DNA methylation and human diseases

A Stoccoro, F Coppedè - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Epigenetic modifications of the nuclear genome, including DNA methylation, histone
modifications and non-coding RNA post-transcriptional regulation, are increasingly being …

Mitochondrial DNA: Epigenetics and environment

N Sharma, MS Pasala, A Prakash - Environmental and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Maintenance of the mitochondrial genome is essential for proper cellular function. For this
purpose, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) needs to be faithfully replicated, transcribed …

Human mitochondrial DNA is extensively methylated in a non-CpG context

V Patil, C Cuenin, F Chung, JRR Aguilera… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Mitochondrial dysfunction plays critical roles in cancer development and related therapeutic
response; however, exact molecular mechanisms remain unclear. Recently, alongside the …

Structure, mechanism, and regulation of mitochondrial DNA transcription initiation

U Basu, AM Bostwick, K Das… - Journal of Biological …, 2020 - ASBMB
Mitochondria are specialized compartments that produce requisite ATP to fuel cellular
functions and serve as centers of metabolite processing, cellular signaling, and apoptosis …

Mitochondria in early development: linking the microenvironment, metabolism and the epigenome

AJ Harvey - Reproduction, 2019 - rep.bioscientifica.com
Mitochondria, originally of bacterial origin, are highly dynamic organelles that have evolved
a symbiotic relationship within eukaryotic cells. Mitochondria undergo dynamic, stage …

Evidence suggesting absence of mitochondrial DNA methylation

M Mechta, LR Ingerslev, O Fabre, M Picard… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Methylation of nuclear genes encoding mitochondrial proteins participates in the regulation
of mitochondria function. The existence of cytosine methylation in the mitochondrial genome …

Mitochondrial heterogeneity

J Aryaman, IG Johnston, NS Jones - Frontiers in genetics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Cell-to-cell heterogeneity drives a range of (patho) physiologically important phenomena,
such as cell fate and chemotherapeutic resistance. The role of metabolism, and particularly …