Mitochondrial Protein Import: Convergent solutions for receptor function

Ryan Lister, James Whelan

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Abstract

Complex machinery has evolved to recognise and import nuclear-encoded proteins into mitochondria. Recent work now shows that the plant Tom20 mitochondrial protein import receptor has a similar tertiary structure to animal Tom20, although the proteins are evolutionarily distinct, representing an elegant example of convergent evolution.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)R197-R199
JournalCurrent Biology
Volume16
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Mar 2006

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