new papers from the lab
Two back to back papers in collaboration with Thierry Doan in Marseille and Chris Tang in Oxford, showing that bacterial rhomboid proteases are key for membrane protein quality control in bacteria, both as proteases and pseudoproteases, which is reminiscent of ERAD and Derlins in eukaryotes.
And an interesting News and Views piece summarising both papers and giving a broad persective written by Knopf and Lemberg:
Knopf JD, Lemberg MK (2020) Derlins with scissors: primordial ERAD in bacteria. EMBO J 39: e105012
It was a great pleasure to work with all the collaborators including Oliver Hoeller for the cover art!
Particular congratulations to all first authors!