New online: Membrane insertion of mitochondrial-encoded proteins regulates ribosome decoding speed
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, Published online: 07 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41594-026-01803-wSchöndorf and Petrychenko et al. show that mitochondrial translation speed is coupled to OXA1L-mediated inner membrane insertion, with cotranslational nascent chain folding and insertion driving structural changes and translational pausing.
