Chapter 4.7, Problem 2CC

Summary Introduction

To determine: The consequence of a chaperone protein not binding to a protein before being imported into the mitochondrial matrix.

Introduction: A eukaryotic cell consists of many cell organelles enclosed within a plasma membrane. Mitochondria and chloroplast are considered as semi-autonomous organelles because they possess the ability to grow and divide due to the presence of their own DNA. However, they are semi-autonomous as they depend on other parts of the cell, such as cytosol to import their internal components.