Drug-induced mitochondrial injury can be caused by many different mechanisms including inhibition of mitochondrial DNA replication, transcription, translation, and altered protein function. Determination of the level of mitochondrial protein synthesis, or mitochondrial biogenesis, relative to the cellular protein synthesis, provides important information on potential mitochondrial toxicity.
Chloramphenicol (10 mM solution in DMSO) (Sigma-Aldrich, catalog number: C1919-5G )
Kaighn’s F12 medium (see Recipes) Note: The cells were maintained in Kaighn’s F12 medium. The cells were passaged twice weekly and maintained at 90% confluence. Cells between passages 4 and 15 were used in the assays.
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