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Goethe University Frankfurt

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Once cells’ quality control mechanism is activated, IRGQ (red) accumulates in special cell organelles, the lsysosomes (green). This is also where the degradation of the non-functional MHC-I molecules takes place.

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Lina Herhaus

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