Key protein in cellular respiration discovered

Wednesday, April 8, 2009 - 11:49 in Biology & Nature

Many diseases derive from problems with cellular respiration, the process through which cells extract energy from nutrients. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have now discovered a new function for a protein in the mitochondrion - popularly called the cell's power station - that plays a key part in cell respiration...

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