Nature Communications (Feb 2017)

Dissecting the molecular organization of the translocon-associated protein complex

  • Stefan Pfeffer,
  • Johanna Dudek,
  • Miroslava Schaffer,
  • Bobby G. Ng,
  • Sahradha Albert,
  • Jürgen M. Plitzko,
  • Wolfgang Baumeister,
  • Richard Zimmermann,
  • Hudson H. Freeze,
  • Benjamin D. Engel,
  • Friedrich Förster

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14516
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The translocon-associated protein complex (TRAP) is a crucial component of the endoplasmic reticulum protein translocon. Here the authors study native translocon structures from human disease patients and algae cells to determine the molecular organization of the TRAP complex.