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Molecule of the Month December 2015 |
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Peeping at TOMs - Diverse entry gates to mitochondria provide insights into the evolution of eukaryotes | ||
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The origin of eukaryotes is tightly linked to a single endosymbiotic event between a prokaryotic host cell and an α-proteobacterium that subsequently was converted into a mitochondrion. At the heart of this organellogenesis lays the evolution of a protein import system.
This work was carried out in the group of Prof. André Schneider. References:
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