Tom40 forms the hydrophilic channel of the mitochondrial import pore for preproteins

Nature

Volumn 395, Issue 6701, 1998, Pages 516-521

  Hill, Kerstin ^a   Model, Kirstin ^b   Ryan, Michael T ^b   Dietmeier, Klaus ^b   Martint, Falk ^b   Wagner, Richard ^a   Pfanner, Nikolaus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; LIPOSOME;

ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; ENZYME RECONSTITUTION; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; ION CHANNELS; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE (CYTOCHROME); LIPOSOMES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TETRAHYDROFOLATE DEHYDROGENASE;

EID: 0032188847     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/26780     Document Type: Article

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