NAC controls nascent chain fate through tunnel sensing and chaperone action
Jae Ho Lee, Laurenz Rabl, Martin Gamerdinger, Vaishali Goyal, Katrin M. Khakzar, Natália M. Barbosa, Juliana Abramovich, Fabián Morales-Polanco, Ann-Kathrin Köhler, Ekaterina Samatova, Marina V. Rodnina, Elke Deuerling, Judith Frydman
This study identifies NAC's role in regulating translation elongation, cotranslational folding, and organelle targeting through sequence-specific interactions with nascent polypeptides.
Nature · Dec 22, 2025Peer-reviewedBiochemistry