Disrupted ER membrane protein complex-mediated topogenesis drives congenital neural crest defects
Marquez J, Criscione J, Charney RM, Prasad MS, Hwang WY, Mis EK, García-Castro MI, Khokha MK. Disrupted ER membrane protein complex-mediated topogenesis drives congenital neural crest defects. Journal Of Clinical Investigation 2020, 130: 813-826. PMID: 31904590, PMCID: PMC6994125, DOI: 10.1172/jci129308.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEndoplasmic reticulum (ER) membrane protein complexMultipass membrane proteinsNeural crest cellsMembrane proteinsHuman NCC developmentER membrane proteinsMembrane protein complexesCell-cell signalsMyriad of functionsNCC defectsNCC developmentProtein complexesUnbiased proteomicsXenopus modelTransmembrane proteinFunction allelesPatient phenotypesCrest cellsMolecular connectionNeural crestMolecular mechanismsBirth defectsPatient variantsEMC1Β-catenin