Two studies provide insights into the distinct strategies used by prokaryotes and eukaryotes to pause translation in order to facilitate cotranslational targeting of membrane proteins to the translocon.
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We thank M. Hegde, B. Santhanam, T. Flock, N.S. Latysheva, J.T. Harbrecht, G. Chalancon and M. Torrent for their feedback. This work was supported by the UK Medical Research Council (MC_U105185859; A.S.M. and M.M.B.) and The Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine (M.M.B.). M.M.B. is supported as a Lister Institute Research Prize Fellow.
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Morgunov, A., Babu, M. Optimizing membrane-protein biogenesis through nonoptimal-codon usage. Nat Struct Mol Biol 21, 1023–1025 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nsmb.2926
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