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Rough Microsomes Can Be Subjected to a "Salt Extraction" Procedure

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Rough microsomes can be subjected to a "salt extraction" procedure in which a high salt concentration is used to remove membrane-associated ribosomes and peripheral proteins. Such salt-extracted microsomes are known to be translocation-incompetent, meaning that when present co-translationally in vitro, they fail to protect translated proteins from protease digestion. However, adding back an 11S particle (S is the sedimentation coefficient) purified from the salt-wash fraction is sufficient to restore the protein-translocation activity of the salt-extracted microsomes. Which of the following do you think is true regarding the 11S particle?


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