Codon bias determines sorting of ion channel protein
Thiel, G.; Kithil, M.; Engel, A. J.; Langhans, M.; Rauh, O.; Cartolano, M.; Van Etten, J. L.; Moroni, A.
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The choice of codons can influence local translation kinetics during protein synthesis. The question of whether the modulation of polypeptide folding and binding to chaperons influences sorting of nascent membrane proteins remains unclear. Here, we use two similar K+ channels as model systems to examine the impact of codon choice on protein sorting. By monitoring transient expression of GFP tagged proteins in mammalian cells we find that targeting of one channel to the secretory pathway is insensitive to codon optimization. In contrast, sorting of the second channel to the mitochondria is very sensitive to codon choice. The protein with an identical amino acid sequence is sorted in a codon and cell cycle dependent manner either to mitochondria or the secretory pathway. The data establish that a gene with either rare or frequent codons serves together with a cell-state depending decoding mechanism as a secondary code for sorting intracellular proteins.
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