Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34152647›Full record

ArticleThe EMBO journal2021

N-glycan processing selects ERAD-resistant misfolded proteins for ER-to-lysosome-associated degradation.

Ilaria Fregno, Elisa Fasana, Tatiana Soldà, Carmela Galli, Maurizio Molinari

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in The EMBO journal, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
44citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

44 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Review
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. FAM134B controls collagen I dynamics in hepatic stellate cell-driven fibrosis.American journal of physiology. Gastrointestinal and liver physiology · 2026
    Article
  8. Article
  9. Article
  10. N-glycan-dependent protein maturation and quality control in the ER.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2025
    Review
  11. Article
  12. Article
  13. Article
  14. Article
  15. N-palmitoyl glycine mediates depression-associated atrial fibrillation via Man1a2-dependent autophagy and NRAP dysregulation.Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2025
    Article
  16. Article
  17. Article
  18. Glycosylation Regulation by TMEM230 in Aging and Autoimmunity.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
    Article
  19. Article
  20. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Ilaria FregnoFaculty of Biomedical Sciences, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Bellinzona, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-0546-8764
Elisa FasanaFaculty of Biomedical Sciences, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Bellinzona, Switzerland.
Tatiana SoldàFaculty of Biomedical Sciences, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Bellinzona, Switzerland.
Carmela GalliFaculty of Biomedical Sciences, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Bellinzona, Switzerland.
Maurizio MolinariFaculty of Biomedical Sciences, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Bellinzona, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-7636-5829

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Efficient degradation of by-products of protein biogenesis maintains cellular fitness. Strikingly, the major biosynthetic compartment in eukaryotic cells, the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), lacks degradative machineries. Misfolded proteins in the ER are translocated to the cytosol for proteasomal degradation via ER-associated degradation (ERAD). Alternatively, they are segregated in ER subdomains that are shed from the biosynthetic compartment and are delivered to endolysosomes under control of ER-phagy receptors for ER-to-lysosome-associated degradation (ERLAD). Demannosylation of N-linked oligosaccharides targets terminally misfolded proteins for ERAD. How misfolded proteins are eventually marked for ERLAD is not known. Here, we show for ATZ and mutant Pro-collagen that cycles of de-/re-glucosylation of selected N-glycans and persistent association with Calnexin (CNX) are required and sufficient to mark ERAD-resistant misfolded proteins for FAM134B-driven lysosomal delivery. In summary, we show that mannose and glucose processing of N-glycans are triggering events that target misfolded proteins in the ER to proteasomal (ERAD) and lysosomal (ERLAD) clearance, respectively, regulating protein quality control in eukaryotic cells.

Indexed as

alpha 1-AntitrypsinAnimalsCalnexinEndoplasmic Reticulum-Associated DegradationFibroblastsGlucosyltransferasesHumansLysosomal-Associated Membrane Protein 1LysosomesMembrane ProteinsMembrane Transport ProteinsMiceOligosaccharidesPolysaccharidesProcollagenProtein Foldingalpha 1-AntitrypsinCalnexinFam134b protein, mouseGlucosyltransferasesLysosomal-Associated Membrane Protein 1Membrane ProteinsMembrane Transport ProteinsOligosaccharidesPolysaccharidesProcollagenSEC62 protein, mouseUGGT1 protein, mouseERADERLADER-phagyN-glycan processingProtein quality control

Identifiers

PMID34152647
PMCPMC8327951

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC-ND
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.