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SUBMITTER: Pleiner T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7547852 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pleiner Tino T Tomaleri Giovani Pinton GP Januszyk Kurt K Inglis Alison J AJ Hazu Masami M Voorhees Rebecca M RM
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20200521 6502
A defining step in the biogenesis of a membrane protein is the insertion of its hydrophobic transmembrane helices into the lipid bilayer. The nine-subunit endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membrane protein complex (EMC) is a conserved co- and posttranslational insertase at the ER. We determined the structure of the human EMC in a lipid nanodisc to an overall resolution of 3.4 angstroms by cryo-electron microscopy, permitting building of a nearly complete atomic model. We used structure-guided mutagenes ...[more]