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Moving inside membranes

The mechanism that inserts proteins into the membranes of cellular organelles was thought to be well understood. But studies in yeast reveal that this process is sometimes more complicated than had been suspected.

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Figure 1: Sorting and assembly pathways of mitochondrial precursor proteins.

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Mihara, K. Moving inside membranes. Nature 424, 505–506 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/424505a

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