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 …
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 …
The molecular details involved in the folding, dynamics, organization, and interaction of proteins with other molecules are often difficult to assess by experimental techniques …
C Thangaratnarajah, M Nijland… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Energy-coupling factor (ECF)-type transporters mediate the uptake of micronutrients in many bacteria. They consist of a substrate-translocating subunit (S-component) and an …
L Smalinskaitė, RS Hegde - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2023 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Multipass membrane proteins contain two or more α-helical transmembrane domains (TMDs) that span the lipid bilayer. They are inserted cotranslationally into the prokaryotic …
Ribosomes interact with a variety of different protein biogenesis factors that guide newly synthesized proteins to their native 3D shapes and cellular localization. Depending on the …
J Yang, N Zhai, Y Chen, L Wang, R Chen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
During legume-rhizobia symbiosis, differentiation of the symbiosome (engulfed intracellular rhizobia) is necessary for successful nitrogen fixation. To control symbiosome differentiation …
O Engberg, D Ulbricht, V Döbel, V Siebert, C Frie… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Membrane thinning by rhomboid proteins has been proposed to reduce hydrophobic mismatch, providing a unique environment for important functions ranging from …
The disassembly of integrin-containing focal adhesions (FAs) at mitotic entry is essential for cell rounding, mitotic retraction fibre formation, bipolar spindle positioning and chromosome …