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To reach the cell surface, membrane proteins are first targeted to an organelle called the endoplasmic reticulum. Several targeting pathways are known, but it now emerges that there is yet another pathway. See Letter p.134

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Figure 1: Ways to target membrane proteins to the secretory pathway.

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  1. Martin R. Pool is in the Division of Molecular and Cellular Function, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine & Health, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK.,

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Pool, M. Sort of unexpected. Nature 540, 45–46 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/540045a

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