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Der1-mediated preprotein import into the periplastid compartment of chromalveolates?
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Apr 2007
Sommer Maik S, Gould Sven B, Lehmann Petra, Gruber Ansgar, Przyborski Jude M, Maier Uwe-G
Abstract excerpt
Phototrophic chromalveolates possess plastids surrounded by either 3 or 4 membranes, revealing their secondary endosymbiotic origin from an engulfed eukaryotic alga. In cryptophytes, a member of the chromalveolates, the organelle is embedded within a designated region of the host's rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER). Its eukaryotic compartments other than the plastid were reduced to the mere remains of its former...
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