A semiautonomous, self replicating organelle that occurs in varying numbers, shapes, and sizes in the cytoplasm of virtually all eukaryotic cells. It is notably the site of tissue respiration. [ GOC:giardia https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0198506732 ]
Synonyms: mitochondria
Term information
goslim_chembl, goslim_generic, goslim_flybase_ribbon, goslim_pir, goslim_drosophila, goslim_agr, goslim_mouse, goslim_plant, goslim_candida, goslim_yeast, goslim_aspergillus
Some anaerobic or microaerophilic organisms (e.g. Entamoeba histolytica, Giardia intestinalis and several Microsporidia species) do not have mitochondria, and contain mitochondrion-related organelles (MROs) instead, called mitosomes or hydrogenosomes, very likely derived from mitochondria. To annotate gene products located in these mitochondrial relics in species such as Entamoeba histolytica, Giardia intestinalis or others, please use GO:0032047 'mitosome' or GO:0042566 'hydrogenosome'. (See PMID:24316280 for a list of species currently known to contain mitochondrion-related organelles.)
Term relations
- mitochondrial ATP synthesis coupled electron transport
- proton motive force-driven mitochondrial ATP synthesis
- mitochondrial gene expression
- mitochondrial protein catabolic process
- mitochondrial RNA metabolic process
- mitochondrial transcription factor activity
- mitochondrial respiratory chain complex III assembly
- mitochondrial protein processing
- maintenance of protein location in mitochondrion
- mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase assembly
- mitochondrial chromosome packaging
- mitochondrial calcium ion homeostasis
- mitochondrial depolarization
- mitochondrial membrane organization
- mitochondrial DNA metabolic process
- mitochondrial translation
- mitochondrial translational termination
- mitochondrial translational elongation
- mitochondrial translational initiation
- mitochondrial RNA localization