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RNA delivery into mitochondria.
Advanced drug delivery reviews - 2 Jul 2001
Entelis N S, Kolesnikova O A, Martin R P, Tarassov I A
Abstract excerpt
Mitochondria, though containing their own genome, import the vast majority of their macromolecular components from the cytoplasm. If the mechanisms of pre-protein import are well understood, the import of nuclear-coded RNAs into mitochondria was investigated to a much lesser extent. This targeting, if not universal, is widely spread among species. The origin and the mechanisms of RNA import seem to differ from...
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