Piotr Bragoszewski, Agnieszka Chacinska and colleagues from the IIMCB and from the University of Freiburg discovered a process of retrotranslocation of mitochondrial proteins. This study has now been published in prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
The International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, as the only scientific institution, took part in the ‘’Grasz o staż’’ (“Play for an internship”) contest.
In the study published in Nature the scientists have revealed the mechanism called UPRam that protects the cell from stress caused by mistargeted mitochondrial precursor proteins accumulating in the cytosol.