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unusual facts about Endoplasmic-reticulum-associated protein degradation


Translocon

ER-proteins are degraded in the cytosol by the 26S proteasome, a process known as Endoplasmic-reticulum-associated protein degradation, and therefore have to be transported by an appropriate channel.


Aminopeptidase

CDNA sequences are available for several aminopeptidases and a crystal structure of the open state of human endoplasmic reticulum Aminopeptidase 1 ERAP1 is presented here.

ATP2A2

This gene encodes one of the SERCA Ca(2+)-ATPases, which are intracellular pumps located in the sarcoplasmic or endoplasmic reticula of muscle cells.

Endocannabinoid system

Results from rat hippocampal gene chip data after acute administration of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) showed an increase in the expression of transcripts encoding myelin basic protein, endoplasmic proteins, cytochrome oxidase, and two cell adhesion molecules: NCAM, and SC1; decreases in expression were seen in both calmodulin and ribosomal RNAs (Kittler et al., 2000).

Endoplasmic reticulum

The lacey membranes of the endoplasmic reticulum were first seen in 1945 by Keith R. Porter, Albert Claude, Brody Meskers and Ernest F. Fullam.

Kifunensine

In the lysosomal storage disorders Gaucher’s and Tay-Sachs disease, endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation (ERAD) prevents the native folding of mutated lysosomal enzymes in a patient’s fibroblasts.

P180

RRBP1 (also known as p180), a human gene that encodes a membrane-bound protein of the endoplasmic reticulum.

Reticulum

This variable was discovered by C. Ragoonatha Chary at the Madras Observatory in India.


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