Sorting and processing of secretory proteins.
Sorting and processing of secretory proteins.
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DOI:
10.1042/bj2990001
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1994-04
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P. Halban;J. Irminger
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作者:
P. Halban;J. Irminger
PROTEIN SECRETORY PATHWAYS: A GENERAL OUTLINE Leader and leaderless secretory proteins Most secretory proteins are synthesized as precursors carrying a leader, or signal, peptide. It is the interaction of the signal peptide with its cognate protein complex (SRP or signal rec-ognition particle) on the ribosome which assures that secretory proteins are synthesized on the RER and translocated into the lumen of this organelle, most typically as translation proceeds [1-5]. The cleavage of the signal peptide by signal peptidase occurs rapidly thereafter. It is in the RER that secretory proteins will become folded into their tertiary structure, assisted by chaperone proteins [6-11]. Oligomerization also occurs in this compartment [8]. For many secretory proteins, glycosylation is initiated within the RER and proceeds up to the trans-Golgi. Although glycosylation is not mandatory for secretory proteins (a well studied example of a non-glycosylated secretory protein being proinsulin), the study ofmammalian glycosylation mutants has greatly facilitated the elucidation of the early steps in the secretory pathway [12].There is a quality control procedure that ensures that proteins which are in some way damaged or incompletely folded, or have failed to oligomerize correctly, are not transported out of the RER [6, 8]. Such altered proteins are typically degraded in the pre-Golgi degradation compartment [13, 14]. Over the past few years, it has become apparent that an alternative to this classicalpathway for secretory proteins exists in several, and perhaps all, cell types [15-17]. This novel pathway is employed by secretory proteins which lack a conventional hydrophobic signal sequence, including basic fibroblast growth factor and interleukin-1. Although the precise mechanism of secretion remains to be characterized, it appears that such proteins may be secreted directly from the cytosol via either