Journal
MOLECULES
Volume 20, Issue 6, Pages 9816-9846Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/molecules20069816
Keywords
N-glycan; EDEM chaperone proteins; ERAD
Funding
- Ministry of Science and Education [3682/P01/2006/32]
- Foundation for Polish Science
- grant Homing [HOM/12/2007]
- Ministry of Science and Higher Education [4731/B/P01/2010/38]
- Research Council of Norway
- South Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority
- Norwegian Cancer Society
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Proteins entering the secretory pathway are translocated across the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membrane in an unfolded form. In the ER they are restricted to a quality control system that ensures correct folding or eventual degradation of improperly folded polypeptides. Mannose trimming of N-glycans on newly synthesized proteins plays an important role in the recognition and sorting of terminally misfolded glycoproteins for ER-associated protein degradation (ERAD). In this process misfolded proteins are retrotranslocated into the cytosol, polyubiquitinated, and eventually degraded by the proteasome. The mechanism by which misfolded glycoproteins are recognized and recruited to the degradation machinery has been extensively studied during last decade. In this review, we focus on ER degradation-enhancing -mannosidase-like protein (EDEM) family proteins that seem to play a key role in the discrimination between proteins undergoing a folding process and terminally misfolded proteins directed for degradation. We describe interactions of EDEM proteins with other components of the ERAD machinery, as well as with various protein substrates. Carbohydrate-dependent interactions together with N-glycan-independent interactions seem to regulate the complex process of protein recognition and direction for proteosomal degradation.
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