New insight on the degradation of short peptides in the cell is presented in the journal PNAS. The results may be of importance for research on Alzheimer’s disease and other age-related diseases. The article is a result of a collaboration project between researchers at Stockholm University, researchers at SciLifeLab, Karolinska Institutet and researchers at La Trobe Univerity, Australia.
Publication:
Organellar oligopeptidase (OOP) provides a complementary pathway for targeting peptide degradation in mitochondria and chloroplasts
B Kmiec, P F Teixeira, R P-A Berntsson, M W Murcha, R M M Branca,J D Radomiljac, J Regberg, L M Svensson, A Bakali, Ü Langel, J Lehtiö, J Whelan, P Stenmark, and E Glaser
PNAS, online 16 September 2013, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1307637110