Meeting Report

• EMBO reports (2009) 10, 1206 - 1210
• doi:10.1038/embor.2009.224

Published online: 23 October 2009

• Subject Categories:

  • Molecular Biology of Disease | Membranes & Transport

Protein quality control—linking the unfolded protein response to disease

Conference on 'From Unfolded Proteins in the Endoplasmic Reticulum to Disease'

Douglas M. Cyr¹ & Daniel N. Hebert²

1. Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, School of Medicine, 526 Taylor Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7090, USA
2. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts, 710 N. Pleasant Street, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA

Correspondence to:

Douglas M. Cyr, Tel: +1 919 843 4805; Fax: +1 919 966 1856;
E-mail: dmcyr@med.unc.edu

Daniel N. Hebert, Tel: +1 413 545 0079; Fax: +1 413 545 3291;
E-mail: dhebert@biochem.umass.edu

Received 26 August 2009; Accepted 21 September 2009

• Keywords:

  • unfolded protein response,
  • protein quality control,
  • molecular chaperone,
  • protein folding,
  • protein degradation