[Biophysics] Re: Mitochondrial DNA

Bradley K. Sherman via biophys%40net.bio.net (by bks from panix.com)
Mon Aug 11 20:43:22 EST 2008


In article <52bc96c6-ebe4-4597-b79c-63cac0da9b19 from n38g2000prl.googlegroups.com>,
j_thomas  <julianthomasp from gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Mitochondrial DNA
>
>http://bioisolutions.blogspot.com/2008/05/mitochondrial-dna.html

What does this mean?

  "mtDNA is particularly susceptible to reactive oxygen species
   generated by the respiratory chain due to its close proximity."
   <op. cit.>

    --bks



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