School of Environmental and Life Sciences, The University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia.
Trends Plant Sci. 2017 Aug;22(8):641-643. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2017.06.005. Epub 2017 Jun 13.
Massive mitochondrial fusion (MMF) in germinating arabidopsis seeds, together with earlier studies, suggests a significant role for MMF in the life cycle of flowering plants. MMF is likely to facilitate nucleoid transmission, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) recombination, and the homogenization of mitochondrial components, thus providing a type of quality control for mitochondrial populations in new generations.
在萌发的拟南芥种子中存在大量的线粒体融合(MMF),再结合之前的研究,这表明 MMF 在开花植物的生命周期中具有重要作用。MMF 可能有助于核体传递、线粒体 DNA(mtDNA)重组以及线粒体成分的同质化,从而为新一代中线粒体群体提供了一种质量控制。