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Články z EurekAlertNo entry without protein recycling: RUB researchers discover new coherence in enzyme transport

10. 2 2012 (06:00)

The group of professor Dr. Ralf Erdmann at the Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum discovered a connection of peroxisomal protein import and receptor export. In the Journal of Biological Chemistry, they disclosed that enzymes only get imported into certain cell organelles (peroxisomes) upon coupling of their import to the recycling of their transport protein (receptor).