protein insertion into mitochondrial outer membrane
The process comprising the insertion of proteins from outside the organelle into the mitochondrial outer membrane, mediated by large outer membrane translocase complexes. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18672008 ]
Term info
protein insertion into mitochondrial outer membrane
- mitochondrial outer membrane protein import
- protein import into mitochondrial outer membrane
- protein transport into mitochondrial outer membrane
biological_process
GO:0045040
Term relations
- outer mitochondrial membrane organization
- intracellular protein transport
- protein import
- protein insertion into mitochondrial membrane
- establishment of protein localization to mitochondrial membrane
- mitochondrial transport
- part of some protein targeting to mitochondrion
- occurs in some cytoplasm