Publications by authors named "Melanie Tasse"
Article Synopsis
- Cytochrome c oxidase subunit II (COX2) is a crucial protein in the respiratory chain that plays a role in reducing oxygen to water and usually consists of about 230 amino acids.
- A study found a significant variation in the COX2 gene in a bivalve species with doubly uniparental inheritance of mitochondrial DNA, where the gene has a large 4.8 kb insertion leading to a COX2 protein that can be as long as 420 amino acids.
- Research techniques confirmed that this insertion is genetically conserved across populations and results in a remarkably large COX2 protein of 1892 amino acids, suggesting it may enhance the mitochondrial metabolism in this bivalve species with male
