Import of Nuclear-Encoded Mitochondrial Proteins

Plant Mitochondria

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 97-140

  Glaser, Elzbieta ^a   Whelan, James ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Mitochondrial protein import; Mitochondrial targeting signals; Molecular chaperones; N terminal extension; Nuclear encoded mitochondrial precursors

Indexed keywords

EID: 62349106771     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470986592.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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