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Editorial
. 2018 Nov;30(11):2646-2647.
doi: 10.1105/tpc.18.00751. Epub 2018 Oct 11.

A Force-Generating Machine in the Plant's Powerhouse: A Pulling AAA-ATPase Motor Drives Protein Translocation into Chloroplasts

Johannes M Herrmann  1
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Editorial

A Force-Generating Machine in the Plant's Powerhouse: A Pulling AAA-ATPase Motor Drives Protein Translocation into Chloroplasts

Johannes M Herrmann. Plant Cell. 2018 Nov.
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The Import Machinery of Chloroplasts. TIC/TOC components (white boxes) identified by Kikuchi et al. (2013). AAA-ATPase motor subunits (yellow box) identified by Kikuchi et al. (2018). OE, outer envelope; IE inner envelope.
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