Mitochondrial tRNA import - The challenge to understand has just begun

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 390, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 717-722

  Alfonzo, Juan D ^a   Söll, Dieter ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Import; Localization; Mitochondria; Protein complex; TRNA

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN 72; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; EVOLUTION; LEISHMANIA; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 70349467827     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: 14374315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.2009.101     Document Type: Short Survey

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