Evidence of compensation for mitochondrial reactive oxygen species increase in Caenorhabditis briggsae cytoplasmic-nuclear hybrids

2024/08/08 by Emma Hernandez, Joseph A. Ross, Laurent M. Dejean
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Mitochondrial Function and Pathology

paper · doi:10.17912/micropub.biology.001319

Abstract

cybrid lines. An increase of catalase expression but not in mitochondrial abundance was found in dysfunctional cybrids. This suggests that organisms might compensate for some genetic incompatibilities by modulating gene expression of key oxidative stress enzymes such as catalase.

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