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Features of membrane protein sequence direct post-translational insertion.
Nature communications - 25 Nov 2024
Kalinin Ilya A, Peled-Zehavi Hadas, Barshap Alon B D, Tamari Shai A, Weiss Yarden, Nevo Reinat, Fluman Nir
Abstract excerpt
The proper folding of multispanning membrane proteins (MPs) hinges on the accurate insertion of their transmembrane helices (TMs) into the membrane. Predominantly, TMs are inserted during protein translation, via a conserved mechanism centered around the Sec translocon. Our study reveals that the C-terminal TMs (cTMs) of numerous MPs across various organisms bypass this cotranslational route, necessitating an...
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