1 February 2017|

Newly made proteins which do not quite achieve the correct 3D shape in the ER are moved to the cell cytoplasm via a specific membrane pore, and broken down. Many disease causing gene mutations e.g. in cystic fibrosis, also result in misfolding of the mutant protein, and its transport though this pore, for cytoplasmic degradation. This pore is hijacked by some bacterial toxins which need to access the cytoplasm to […]