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SUBMITTER: Bano-Polo M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6286305 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20181207 1
Integral membrane proteins are assembled into the ER membrane via a continuous ribosome-translocon channel. The hydrophobicity and thickness of the core of the membrane bilayer leads to the expectation that transmembrane (TM) segments minimize the cost of harbouring polar polypeptide backbones by adopting a regular pattern of hydrogen bonds to form α-helices before integration. Co-translational folding of nascent chains into an α-helical conformation in the ribosomal tunnel has been demonstrated ...[more]