Mechanism of membrane-tethered mitochondrial protein synthesis (IMAGE)

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Mechanism of membrane-tethered mitochondrial protein synthesis

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Mitoribosomes are tethered to the mitochondrial inner membrane to facilitate insertion of synthesized proteins (yellow) encoded by the mitochondrial genome. A gating mechanism of the exit tunnel (cyan) enables protein delivery to the membrane insertase OXA1L (light brown).

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Dan W. Nowakowski and Alexey Amunts

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