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A nucleolar protein allows viability in the absence of the essential ER-residing molecular chaperone calnexin.
Journal of cell science - 1 May 2009
Beauregard Pascale B, Guérin Renée, Turcotte Cynthia, Lindquist Susan, Rokeach Luis A
Abstract excerpt
In fission yeast, the ER-residing molecular chaperone calnexin is normally essential for viability. However, a specific mutant of calnexin that is devoid of chaperone function (Deltahcd_Cnx1p) induces an epigenetic state that allows growth of Schizosaccharomyces pombe without calnexin. This calnexin-independent (Cin) state was previously shown to be mediated via a non-chromosomal element exhibiting some...
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