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SUBMITTER: Howe C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2790484 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Howe Christopher C Garstka Malgorzata M Al-Balushi Mohammed M Ghanem Esther E Antoniou Antony N AN Fritzsche Susanne S Jankevicius Gytis G Kontouli Nasia N Schneeweiss Clemens C Williams Anthony A Elliott Tim T Springer Sebastian S
The EMBO journal 20091022 23
Calreticulin is a lectin chaperone of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). In calreticulin-deficient cells, major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecules travel to the cell surface in association with a sub-optimal peptide load. Here, we show that calreticulin exits the ER to accumulate in the ER-Golgi intermediate compartment (ERGIC) and the cis-Golgi, together with sub-optimally loaded class I molecules. Calreticulin that lacks its C-terminal KDEL retrieval sequence assembles with the pe ...[more]