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Barreling through the membrane

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The mechanism of transmembrane β-barrel protein insertion into an intracellular membrane is essentially unknown. Two recent studies reveal that the process is protein-mediated and identify a protein complex that is involved.

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Figure 1: Pathways for polypeptide insertion into membranes.

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  1. Department of Medical Biochemistry and Genetics and the Departments of Chemistry and of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, College Station, 77843-1114, Texas, USA

    Arthur E Johnson

  2. Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, 21205, Maryland, USA

    Robert E Jensen

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