Thirty years of protein translocation into mitochondria: Unexpectedly complex and still puzzling

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Cell Research

Volumn 1793, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 33-41

  Mokranjac, Dejana ^a   Neupert, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mitochondria; Protein sorting; Protein translocases; Protein transport

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 90; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN OMP85; PROTEIN TIM10; PROTEIN TIM14; PROTEIN TIM16; PROTEIN TIM17; PROTEIN TIM23; PROTEIN TIM40; PROTEIN TIM44; PROTEIN TIM50; PROTEIN TIM9; PROTEIN TOB38; PROTEIN TOB55; PROTEIN TOM22; PROTEIN TOM40; PROTEIN TOM7; PROTEIN TOM70; TRANSLOCASE OF OUTER MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE 20; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL ORGANELLE; CYTOSOL; EUKARYOTIC CELL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CYTOSOL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 56349144637     PISSN: 01674889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2008.06.021     Document Type: Review

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