Mitochondrial protein import

ID: mitochondrial-protein-import

Mitochondrial protein import by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
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: 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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