Widespread Cotranslational Formation of Protein Complexes

Widespread Cotranslational Formation of Protein Complexes

Most cellular processes are conducted by multi-protein complexes. However, little is known about how these complexes are assembled. In particular, it is not known if they are formed while one or more members of the complexes are being translated (cotranslational assembly). We took a genomic approach to address this question, by systematically identifying mRNAs associated with specific proteins....

Cotranslational protein folding.

The problem of how the linear amino acid sequence of a polypeptide folds to assume its unique tertiary structure is one of the most basic and challenging conundrums of contemporary science. Many of the principles and characteristics of protein folding have been learned by studying refolding of denatured polypeptides. However, the problem of protein folding cannot be completely understood withou...

Circadian formation of clock protein complexes

ER stress causes widespread protein aggregation and prion formation

Disturbances in endoplasmic reticulum (ER) homeostasis create a condition termed ER stress. This activates the unfolded protein response (UPR), which alters the expression of many genes involved in ER quality control. We show here that ER stress causes the aggregation of proteins, most of which are not ER or secretory pathway proteins. Proteomic analysis of the aggregated proteins revealed enri...

Energy landscape theory for cotranslational protein folding

Abstract Energy landscape theory describes how a full-length protein can attain its native fold after sampling only a tiny fraction of all possible structures. Although protein folding is now understood to be concomitant with synthesis on the ribosome there have been few attempts to modify energy landscape theory by accounting for cotranslational folding. This paper introduces a model for cotra...