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SUBMITTER: Clements A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2747197 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Clements Abigail A Bursac Dejan D Gatsos Xenia X Perry Andrew J AJ Civciristov Srgjan S Celik Nermin N Likic Vladimir A VA Poggio Sebastian S Jacobs-Wagner Christine C Strugnell Richard A RA Lithgow Trevor T
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20090826 37
Molecular machines drive essential biological processes, with the component parts of these machines each contributing a partial function or structural element. Mitochondria are organelles of eukaryotic cells, and depend for their biogenesis on a set of molecular machines for protein transport. How these molecular machines evolved is a fundamental question. Mitochondria were derived from an alpha-proteobacterial endosymbiont, and we identified in alpha-proteobacteria the component parts of a mito ...[more]