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Hidden structure found in essential metabolic machinery – EurekAlert
Rice University biochemists have discovered membrane-divided subcompartments within organelles called peroxisomes, essential pieces of metabolic machinery for all…
IMAGE: Zachary Wright is a postdoctoral research associate in Rice University’s Department of BioSciences.
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Credit: Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University
HOUSTON – (Dec. 4, 2020) – In his first year of graduate school, Rice University biochemist Zachary Wright discovered something hidden inside a common piece of cellular machinery that’s essential for all higher order life from yeast to humans.
What Wright saw in 2015 — subcompartments inside organelles called peroxisomes — is described…
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