Ryan Michael T
Department of Biochemistry, La Trobe University 3088, Melbourne, Australia.
Curr Biol. 2004 Mar 9;14(5):R207-9. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2004.02.024.
How beta-barrel proteins are inserted into cellular membranes is poorly understood. New work has identified a sorting and assembly machinery that chaperones beta-barrels into the mitochondrial outer membrane and is evolutionarily conserved from bacteria to man.