The process for translation of a protein destined for the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) branches from the canonical cytoslic translation process at the point when a nascent polypeptide containing a hydrophobic signal sequence is exposed on the surface of the cytosolic ribosome:mRNA:peptide complex. The signal sequence mediates the interaction of this complex with a cytosolic signal recognition particle (SRP) to form a complex which in turn docks with an SRP receptor complex on the ER membrane. There the ribosome complex is transferred from the SRP complex to a translocon complex embedded in the ER membrane and reoriented so that the nascent polypeptide protrudes through a pore in the translocon into the ER lumen. Translation, which had been halted by SRP binding, now resumes, the signal peptide is cleaved from the polypeptide, and elongation proceeds, with the growing polypeptide oriented into the ER lumen.
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The Signal Recognition Particle (SRP) receptor mediates transfer of the ribosome:mRNA:nascent protein complex to the Translocon Complex. A coupled reaction (not annotated here) in which GTP molecules are hydrolyzed by the alpha subunit of the SRP Receptor and the SRP54 subunit of the SRP is thought to ensure release of the SRP only after the ribosome is properly reoriented. At the end of this process, the ribosome is attached to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membrane with its associated nascent polypeptide protruding through the Translocon Complex into the ER lumen.
As the signal peptide of the nascent protein enters the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), the signal peptide is recognized and cleaved by the ER membrane-associated Signal Peptidase. Translation of the protein then proceeds to completion.
The SRP receptor in the the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membrane binds via its alpha subunit to the the SRP54 subunit of the Signal Recognition Particle (SRP), which itself is bound to a ribosome:mRNA:polypeptide complex. This interaction tethers the ribosome to the ER membrane, oriented so that the nacent polypeptide will traverse the ER membrane and enter the ER lumen. This process has been characterized in detail in cultured canine cells; this human event is inferred by homology from its canine counterpart.
The Ribosome Nascent Complex containing the ribosome and protruding signal peptide of preprolactin is bound by the Signal Recognition Particle Complex. Translation is paused during this step.
The synthesis of a protein destined for the endoplasmic reticulum starts with the canonical events of cytosolic translation initiation and proceeds to the point where a nascent polypeptide chain containing a signal sequence protrudes from the mRNA:ribosome complex. Merrick (2010) provides an overview of these events.
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