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JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 155, Issue 3, Pages 355-367Publisher
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200106123
Keywords
endoplasmic reticulum; vesicular transport; protein degradation; misfolded proteins; glycosylation
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM059171, GM052549, R01 GM052549, R37 GM052549, R01 GM059171] Funding Source: Medline
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Proteins destined for the secretory pathway must first fold and assemble in the lumen of endoplasmic reticulum (ER). The pathway maintains a quality control mechanism to assure that aberrantly processed proteins are not delivered to their sites of function. As part of this mechanism, misfolded proteins are returned to the cytosol via the ER protein translocation pore where they are ubiquitinated and degraded by the 26S proteasome. Previously, little was known regarding the recognition and targeting of proteins before degradation, By tracking the fate of several mutant proteins subject to quality control, we demonstrate the existence of two distinct sorting mechanisms. In the ER, substrates are either sorted for retention in the ER or are transported to the Golgi apparatus via COPII-coated vesicles. Proteins transported to the Golgi are retrieved to the ER via the retrograde transport system. Ultimately, both retained and retrieved proteins converge at a common machinery at the ER for degradation. Furthermore, we report the identification of a gene playing a novel role specific to the retrieval pathway. The gene, BST1, is required for the transport of misfolded proteins to the Golgi, although dispensable for the transport of many normal cargo proteins.
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