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Open questions: respiratory chain supercomplexes—why are they there and what do they do?
In the mitochondrial inner membrane the respiratory enzymes associate to form supramolecular assemblies known as supercomplexes. The existence of supercomplexes is now widely accepted—but what functional or structural advantages, if any, do they confer?
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6211484/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30382836 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-018-0577-5 |
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spelling | pubmed-62114842018-11-08 Open questions: respiratory chain supercomplexes—why are they there and what do they do? Hirst, Judy BMC Biol Comment In the mitochondrial inner membrane the respiratory enzymes associate to form supramolecular assemblies known as supercomplexes. The existence of supercomplexes is now widely accepted—but what functional or structural advantages, if any, do they confer? BioMed Central 2018-11-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6211484/ /pubmed/30382836 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-018-0577-5 Text en © Hirst et al. 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Comment Hirst, Judy Open questions: respiratory chain supercomplexes—why are they there and what do they do? |
title | Open questions: respiratory chain supercomplexes—why are they there and what do they do? |
title_full | Open questions: respiratory chain supercomplexes—why are they there and what do they do? |
title_fullStr | Open questions: respiratory chain supercomplexes—why are they there and what do they do? |
title_full_unstemmed | Open questions: respiratory chain supercomplexes—why are they there and what do they do? |
title_short | Open questions: respiratory chain supercomplexes—why are they there and what do they do? |
title_sort | open questions: respiratory chain supercomplexes—why are they there and what do they do? |
topic | Comment |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6211484/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30382836 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-018-0577-5 |
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