Role of the negative charges in the cytosolic domain of TOM22 in the import of precursor proteins into mitochondria

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 3173-3181

  Nargang, Frank E ^a   Rapaport, Doron ^b   Ritzel, R Gary ^a   Neupert, Walter ^b   Lill, Roland ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

ARTICLE; DELETION MUTANT; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 0031844305     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.18.6.3173     Document Type: Article

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