Mitochondria volume

Range Haploid strain 0.16: Diploid strain 0.14 μm^3
Organism Budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Reference Posakony JW, England JM, Attardi G. Mitochondrial growth and division during the cell cycle in HeLa cells. J Cell Biol. 1977 Aug74(2):468-91. p.485 right column 2nd paragraphPubMed ID885911
Primary Source Grimes GW, Mahler HR, Perlman RS. Nuclear gene dosage effects on mitochondrial mass and DNA. J Cell Biol. 1974 Jun61(3):565-74.PubMed ID4365780
Comments "For the number of mitochondria per unit of cytoplasmic volume, these authors observed values of 0.85/µm^3 and 1.02/µm^3 (haploid and diploid strains, respectively) for the mean mitochondrial volume, the values were 0.16µm^3 and 0.14µm^3, respectively."
Entered by Uri M
ID 109397