Protein design: From the aspect of water solubility and stability

R Qing, S Hao, E Smorodina, D Jin, A Zalevsky… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Water solubility and structural stability are key merits for proteins defined by the primary
sequence and 3D-conformation. Their manipulation represents important aspects of the …

The mechanisms of integral membrane protein biogenesis

RS Hegde, RJ Keenan - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2022 - nature.com
Roughly one quarter of all genes code for integral membrane proteins that are inserted into
the plasma membrane of prokaryotes or the endoplasmic reticulum membrane of …

[HTML][HTML] Visualization of translation and protein biogenesis at the ER membrane

M Gemmer, ML Chaillet, J van Loenhout… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The dynamic ribosome–translocon complex, which resides at the endoplasmic reticulum
(ER) membrane, produces a major fraction of the human proteome,. It governs the synthesis …

Mechanism of an intramembrane chaperone for multipass membrane proteins

L Smalinskaitė, MK Kim, AJO Lewis, RJ Keenan… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Multipass membrane proteins play numerous roles in biology and include receptors,
transporters, ion channels and enzymes,. How multipass proteins are co-translationally …

Influenza A virus cell entry, replication, virion assembly and movement

D Dou, R Revol, H Östbye, H Wang… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Influenza viruses replicate within the nucleus of the host cell. This uncommon RNA virus trait
provides influenza with the advantage of access to the nuclear machinery during replication …

Structure, assembly, and function of tripartite efflux and type 1 secretion systems in gram-negative bacteria

I Alav, J Kobylka, MS Kuth, KM Pos, M Picard… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Tripartite efflux pumps and the related type 1 secretion systems (T1SSs) in Gram-negative
organisms are diverse in function, energization, and structural organization. They form …

Substrate-driven assembly of a translocon for multipass membrane proteins

A Sundaram, M Yamsek, F Zhong, Y Hooda, RS Hegde… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Most membrane proteins are synthesized on endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-bound ribosomes
docked at the translocon, a heterogeneous ensemble of transmembrane factors operating …

Protein export through the bacterial Sec pathway

A Tsirigotaki, J De Geyter, A Economou… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
The general secretory (Sec) pathway comprises an essential, ubiquitous and universal
export machinery for most proteins that integrate into, or translocate through, the plasma …

Mechanistic insights into ER-associated protein degradation

X Wu, TA Rapoport - Current opinion in cell biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Misfolded proteins of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) are discarded by a conserved process,
called ER-associated protein degradation (ERAD). ERAD substrates are retro-translocated …

A peroxisomal ubiquitin ligase complex forms a retrotranslocation channel

P Feng, X Wu, SK Erramilli, JA Paulo, P Knejski… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Peroxisomes are ubiquitous organelles that house various metabolic reactions and are
essential for human health,,–. Luminal peroxisomal proteins are imported from the cytosol by …