PGRMC1 acts as a size-selective cargo receptor to drive ER-phagic clearance of mutant prohormones

Degradation of misfolded proteins from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is important for maintaining proper cellular protein homeostasis. Here, the authors discovered that the ER membrane protein PGRMC1 binds to misfolded prohormones for recruitment into the ER-phagy degradative pathway.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yu-Jie Chen, Jeffrey Knupp, Anoop Arunagiri, Leena Haataja, Peter Arvan, Billy Tsai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26225-8