“…On the other hand, in the last few years, several Authors have reported the extramitochondrial functional expression of the OXPHOS machinery [reviewed in Panfoli et al., ], indicating that mitochondrial proteins are exportable. An extramitochondrial OXPHOS was reported in rod outer segment disks [Panfoli et al., , ; Calzia et al., ], myelin sheath from both central and peripheral nervous system [Ravera et al., , , , , ,b], plasma membrane of glioma C6 cells [Ravera et al., ] and lung adenocarcinoma cells [Chang et al., ]. These data are supported by several proteomic analyses [reviewed in Panfoli et al., ].…”