Mitochondrial import: Crossing the aqueous intermembrane space

Current Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 1998, Pages

  Pfanner, Nikolaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MITOCHONDRION;

EID: 0032499079     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(98)70168-x     Document Type: Review

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