Luis A. del R´ıo
Editor

2013

Peroxisomes are a class of ubiquitous and dynamic single membrane-bounded cell organelles, devoid of DNA, with an essentially oxidative type of metabolism.When these organelles were first isolated and characterized from mammalian tissues in the beginning of the 1960s by Christian de Duve, it was thought that their main function was the removal by catalase of toxic hydrogen peroxide generated in the peroxisomal respiratory pathway by different oxidases (De Duve and Baudhuin 1966).