PROTEIN TRANSLOCATION ACROSS THE ENDOPLASMIC-RETICULUM
PROTEIN TRANSLOCATION ACROSS THE ENDOPLASMIC-RETICULUM
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DOI:
10.1016/0092-8674(84)90520-8
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
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影响因子:
64.5
通讯作者:
BLOBEL, G
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作者:
WALTER, P;GILMORE, R;BLOBEL, G
An important aspect of the biosynthesis of proteins is their intracellular topology (Blobel, PNAS 77, 1496, 1980). Many proteins spend their entire lives in the same compartment in which they were synthesized; others have to cross the hydrophobic barrier of distinct cellular membranes in order to reach an intracellular compartment or extracellular site where they exert their function. Numerous membrane proteins have to be integrated asymmetrically into distinct cellular membranes. For many of these proteins this requires partial translocation, ie, the selective transfer of distinct hydrophilic domains of their polypeptide chain across specific membranes. Thus mechanisms must exist in the cell that assure that these proteins are targeted to, and subsequently translocated across, the correct intracellular membrane, while the membrane itself remains impermeable to other solutes. In the last few years major advances have been made in our understanding of the targeting and translocation machinery of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Three distinct classes of proteins utilize this translocation system: secretory proteins (Palade, Science 789, 347, 1975) and lysosomal proteins (Erickson et al., JBC 256, 11224, 1981) are translocated across, while certain classes of integral membrane proteins (Lingappa et al., JBC 253, 8667, 1978) are integrated into, the ER membrane. A detailed biochemical analysis of this process became feasible through the development of in vitro systems that were able to reproduce the translocation of nascent secretory proteins across the ER membrane (isolated in the form of closed microsomal vesicles) with apparent fidelity (Blobel and Dobberstein, JCB 67, 852, 1975; Szczesna and Boime, PNAS 73, 1179, 1976). So far, two components have been purified from canine pancreas and shown to be required for the translocation event.One of these components is the signal recognition particle (SRP), an 11 S cytoplasmic ribonucleoprotein. SRP consists of six nonidentical polypeptide chains with apparent molecular weights of 72, 68, 54, 19, 14, and 9 kd (Walter and Blobel, PNAS 77, 7112, 1980) and one molecule of RNA of about 300 nucleotides (Walter and Blobel, Nature 299, 691, 1982). When separated, both RNA and proteins are inactive, but they can be readily reconstituted into an active particle (Walter and Blobel, Cell 34, 525, 1983).