In eukaryotic cells, nascent membrane or secretory proteins are translocated into the endoplasmic reticulum through the Sec61p translocation channel; recent evidence suggests that, if they fail to achieve a native conformation, they are translocated back into the cytosol by the same route and degraded by the proteasome.
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