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E Chevet1, C A Jakob, D Y Thomas
1Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. eh14@musica.mcgill.ca
Abstract:
The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is an intracellular compartment devoted to the synthesis, segregation and folding of soluble and membrane secretory proteins. Some mutations in these proteins lead to their incorrect or incomplete folding in the ER. The ER has a quality control system which detects misfolded proteins and then specifies their fate. Some mutated proteins are retained in the ER wherein they accumulate (Russell bodies for misfolded immunoglobulin heavy chains, the PiZZ for alpha 1-antitrypsin), others are retrotranslocated from the ER and degraded by the cytosolic proteasomal system, and yet other proteins are eventually secreted (in AZC-treated cells). In this review we summarize the role of ER resident proteins in quality control of mutated secretory proteins.
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