Functional analysis of human metaxin in mitochondrial protein import in cultured cells and its relationship with the Tom complex

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 276, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1028-1034

  Abdul, Khaleque Md ^a   Terada, Kazutoyo ^a   Yano, Masato ^a   Ryan, Michael T ^b   Streimann, Illo ^b   Hoogenraad, Nicholas J ^b   Mori, Masataka ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Metaxin; Mitochondria; Preprotein; Protein import; Tom complex

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; METAXIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; CYTOSOL; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

EID: 0034609954     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2000.3589     Document Type: Article

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