Nature Communications (May 2017)

Charting organellar importomes by quantitative mass spectrometry

  • Christian D. Peikert,
  • Jan Mani,
  • Marcel Morgenstern,
  • Sandro Käser,
  • Bettina Knapp,
  • Christoph Wenger,
  • Anke Harsman,
  • Silke Oeljeklaus,
  • André Schneider,
  • Bettina Warscheid

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15272
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Knowing the specific protein content of individual organelles is necessary for an integrated understanding of cellular physiology. Here the authors describe a mass spectrometry-based approach to identify the substrates of distinct protein import pathways and define organellar proteomes.