Organelle formation from scratch

Ewald H. Hettema () and Stephen J. Gould ()
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Ewald H. Hettema: University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK.
Stephen J. Gould: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 2120, USA.

Nature, 2017, vol. 542, issue 7640, 174-175

Abstract: Cellular organelles called peroxisomes aid metabolism, and defective peroxisome formation can cause disease. It emerges that peroxisomes can form de novo from the fusion of vesicles derived from two distinct organelle types. See Letter p.251

Date: 2017
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