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2019
The transport of small molecules across membranes is essential for the import of nutrients and other energy sources into the cell and, for the export of waste and other potentially harmful byproducts out of the cell. While hydrophobic molecules are permeable to membranes, ions and other small polar molecules require transport via specialized membrane ...
Masi, Muriel +2 more
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Extramitochondrial Porin: Facts and Hypotheses

Journal of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes, 2000
Mitochondrial porin, or VDAC, is a pore-forming protein abundant in the outer mitochondrial membrane. Several publications have reported extramitochondrial localizations as well, but the evidence was considered insufficient by many, and the presence of porin in nonmitochondrial cellular compartments has remained in doubt for a long time.
G. BATHORI +8 more
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On the Structure of Mitochondrial Porins and Its Homologies with Bacterial Porins

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 1994
By use of computer modelling, we have predicted a model of 16 transmembrane beta-strands for mitochondrial porins structure from human, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Neurospora crassa and Dictyostelium discoideum. The proposed model takes into account biochemical and immunological data reported in the literature, as well as electrophysiological results ...
G Rauch, O Moran
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