mitochondrial-protein-import

= Mitochondrial protein import

The process that imports proteins encoded in the nuclear DNA and made in the <cytosol> into the <mitochondria>.

The term is mentioned e.g. in this article: https://www.nature.com/articles/nrm2959[].

<Power, Sex, Suicide by Nick Lane (2006)> suggests that proteins are somehow tagged with extra <amino acids> for this.

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