Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting | Ascona, Switzerland

Liposomes, Exosomes, and Virosomes: From Modeling Complex Membrane Processes to Medical Diagnostics and Drug Delivery

Tuesday Speaker Abstracts

Cotranslational Protein Folding Gunnar Von Heijne . Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

We have developed a technique based on the use of so-called translational arrest peptides to measure forces acting on a nascent chain during cotranslational processes such as membrane translocation and folding. In contrast to hard-core biophysical methods, the technique can be used both in vitro and in vivo. Recent results on cotranslational folding of cytoplasmic and membrane proteins will be presented.

30