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CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 24, Issue 4, Pages 484-489Publisher
CURRENT BIOLOGY LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2012.05.003
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- National Institutes of Health (NIH) [DK41737]
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Peroxisomes are essential organelles responsible for many metabolic reactions, such as the oxidation of very long chain and branched fatty acids, D-amino acids and polyamines, as well as the production and turnover of hydrogen peroxide. They comprise a class of organelles called microbodies, including glycosomes, glyoxysomes and Woronin bodies. Dysfunction of human peroxisomes causes severe and often fatal peroxisome biogenesis disorders (PBDs). Peroxisomal matrix protein import is mediated by receptors that shuttle between the cytosol and peroxisomal matrix using ubiquitination/deubiquitination reactions and ATP hydrolysis for receptor recycling. We focus on the machinery involved in the peroxisomal matrix protein import cycle, highlighting recent advances in peroxisomal matrix protein import, cargo release and receptor recycling/degradation.
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