Inner membrane turns inside out to exit mitochondrial organelles

NEWS AND VIEWS 21 August 2024 Inner membrane turns inside out to exit mitochondrial organelles How do mitochondrial organelles remove damaged parts of inner membrane for recycling in the

cytoplasm? The discovery of an exit route that flips inner membrane outside the organelle provides some answers. By David Pla-Martín ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5189-07230 & Andreas S.

Reichert ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9340-31131 David Pla-Martín David Pla-Martín is at the Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology I, Medical Faculty, University Hospital

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Andreas S. Reichert Andreas S. Reichert is at the Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology I, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf,

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Twitter Facebook Email Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Organelles such as mitochondria use a variety of mechanisms to recycle their components. Writing in Nature, Prashar et

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