bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/179564; this version posted August 22, 2017. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. RAC-Ssb and integral membrane protein translation Role for Ribosome-Associated Complex and Stress-Seventy subfamily B (RAC-Ssb) in integral membrane protein translation Ligia Acosta-Sampson1, Kristina Döring2,3, Yuping Lin1,† Vivian Y. Yu1, Bernd Bukau2,3, Günter Kramer2,3, and Jamie H. D. Cate1,4,5 From the 1Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. 2Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH), DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Im Neuenheimer Feld 282, Heidelberg D-69120, Germany. 3German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, Heidelberg D-69120, Germany 4Department of Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. 5Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. †Present address: Key Laboratory of Systems Microbial Biotechnology, Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin 300308, China. Running title: RAC-Ssb and integral membrane protein translation Correspondence should be addressed to Jamie H.D. Cate (email:
[email protected]). Keywords: membrane protein, protein synthesis, chaperone, major facilitator superfamily (MFS), translation control, ribosome associated complex (RAC), stress-seventy subfamily B (Ssb), unfolded protein response (UPR). ABSTRACT mechanisms underlying human disease and protein Targeting of most integral membrane proteins production in biotechnology. to the endoplasmic reticulum is controlled by the signal recognition particle (SRP), which recognizes a hydrophobic signal sequence near the protein N-terminus.