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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Kami D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7404190 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
International journal of molecular sciences 20200715 14
Mitochondrial transfer has been recognized to play a role in a variety of processes, ranging from fertilization to cancer and neurodegenerative diseases as well as mammalian horizontal gene transfer. It is achieved through either exogeneous or intercellular mitochondrial transfer. From the viewpoint of evolution, exogeneous mitochondrial transfer is quite akin to the initial process of symbiosis between α-protobacterium and archaea, although the progeny have developed more sophisticated machiner ...[more]