Tom40, the import channel of the mitochondrial outer membrane, plays an active role in sorting imported proteins

EMBO Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2380-2386

  Gabriel, Kipros ^a   Egan, Billie ^a   Lithgow, Trevor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Mitochondrion; Protein sorting; TIM complex; TOM complex

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN TIM23; PROTEIN TIM54; PROTEIN TOM40; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TARGETING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; HUMANS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 0037566814     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdg229     Document Type: Article

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