Peroxisomes and their Key Role in Cellular Signaling and Metabolism

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: del Río, Luis A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Subcellular Biochemistry, 69
• Subjects: Medicine.; Biochemistry.; Plant biochemistry.; Proteomics.; Cell biology.; Cell physiology.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Cell Biology.; Cell Physiology.; Animal Biochemistry.; Plant Biochemistry.

Peroxisomes are a class of ubiquitous and dynamic single membrane-bounded cell organelles, devoid of DNA, with an essentially oxidative type of metabolism. Today it is known that fatty acid β-oxidation is a general feature of virtually all types of peroxisomes, but in higher eukaryotes, including hu...