TIM/TOM Complex
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The TIM/TOM Complex is a process in nucleic biochemistry where proteins used in mitochondria, the DNA which is within the greater cell's DNA, are ferried to the mitochondria for use in the OXPHOS process. Only 13 proteins necessary for mitochondria are actually coded in mitochondrial DNA.
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- How age-damaged mitochondria age you - Article describes how Cambridge's Aubrey De Gray postulates the idea of shipping the mitochondrial protein coding DNA into our chromozones as a backup in case of inevitable mitochondrial DNA damage so that the OXPHOS process remains uncompromised.
