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The study of protein export, into or across membranes, has clearly become one of the liveliest areas in cell biology today, with rapid advances being made both in prokaryotes and in eukaryotic cells. But as a microbiologist, aware that the simplicity and the ease of genetic manipulability of prokaryotes made them the organisms of choice in the early explorations of many of the other universal properties of cells, I have been intrigued by the fact that studies of membrane structure and function have always lagged in prokaryotes compared with eukaryotes.
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Davis, B.D. (1986). Past Triumphs, Future Challenges. In: Wu, H.C., Tai, P.C. (eds) Protein Secretion and Export in Bacteria. Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, vol 125. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71251-7_1
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