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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.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 16546069 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.02.024
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Biol ISSN: 0960-9822 Impact factor: 10.834