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By 1940 Albert Claude had succeeded in isolating from animal cells cytoplasmic RNA-containing granules that were smaller than mitochondria. These granules varied from 50 to 200 μ in diameter and later Claude began calling them microsomes. Chemical analyses indicated that Claude’s microsomes were “phospholipid-ribonucleoprotein complexes.”
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Spirin, A.S. (1999). Ribosomes and Translation. In: Ribosomes. Cellular Organelles. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7817-8_4
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