Towards designer organelles by subverting the peroxisomal import pathway

Laura L. Cross; Rupesh Paudyal; Yasuko Kamisugi; Alan Berry; Andrew C. Cuming; Alison Baker; Stuart L. Warriner

doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00487-7

Nature Communications (Sep 2017)

Towards designer organelles by subverting the peroxisomal import pathway

Laura L. Cross,
Rupesh Paudyal,
Yasuko Kamisugi,
Alan Berry,
Andrew C. Cuming,
Alison Baker,
Stuart L. Warriner

Affiliations

Laura L. Cross: Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds
Rupesh Paudyal: School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds
Yasuko Kamisugi: The Centre for Plant Sciences, University of Leeds
Alan Berry: Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds
Andrew C. Cuming: The Centre for Plant Sciences, University of Leeds
Alison Baker: Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds
Stuart L. Warriner: Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00487-7
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Designer organelles could allow the isolation of synthetic biological pathways from endogenous components of the host cell. Here the authors engineer a peroxisomal protein import pathway orthogonal to the naturally occurring system.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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