Abstract
Maintenance of the proteome is a major homeostatic task of the cell and disregulation of protein homeostasis can be deadly. The accumulation of different forms of misfolded protein can perturb protein homeostasis and cause extensive cell and tissue damage. The cell has various quality control systems to help prevent the accumulation of misfolded proteins and the complexity of the different mechanisms that have evolved is bewildering. The first order of business for all quality control systems is recognition of misfolded proteins, which is followed by a triage decision. In many cases, modular molecular chaperones function in different assemblies with degradatory or folding co-factors to direct a misfolded protein toward continued life or death. Herein, an overview of quality control mechanisms that triage soluble cytosolic proteins, protein aggregates, and ER-associated proteins is presented.
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DMC is supported by NIH R01GM056981 and Cystic Fibrosis Foundation grant CYRCFF11G0.
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Houck, S.A., Singh, S., Cyr, D.M. (2012). Cellular Responses to Misfolded Proteins and Protein Aggregates. In: Dohmen, R., Scheffner, M. (eds) Ubiquitin Family Modifiers and the Proteasome. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 832. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-474-2_32
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