The Scientist : Pea style protein import [4/1/2002]

Email: Tudor Toma - t.toma@ic.ac.uk
News from The Scientist 2002, 3(1):20020104-03

4 January 2002

Protein import into chloroplasts involves interactions between precursor proteins and the translocon complex (Toc) located in cell membranes. In 2 January Nature Structural Biology Yuh-Ju Sun and colleagues from Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, gave the first details about the Toc34 structure, which provided new insights into the mechanism of protein transport across membranes.

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