Sounds trivial? Please help to sort out. I saw this picture while looking at dehydration reactions and cell revision.
And proceeded to the reference web page.
Protein Folding and Processing in the ER: Various changes occur to proteins in the ER. Chaperones and Folding: Polypeptides must assume the correct folding pattern in order to function properly. The correct folding of a protein is mediated by chaperones (they also are proteins--chaperones are abundant in the ER lumen). A completed polypeptide will assume the correct folding pattern spontaneously, however before translation is complete, it could assume an incorrect formation or it could aggregate with other partially made polypeptides. To prevent this, chaperones in the ER (and cytosol) bind to the nascent polypeptide and keep it from interacting with anything until the polypeptide is completely synthesized. (Chaperones bind to polypeptides destined for mitochondria then release them as they pass through the mitochondrial membranes. Chaperones on the inside of mitochondria bind until these polypeptides have completely entered.)
With regards to protein synthesis and folding, this kind of info is not in my textbook. Not in couple of the online open textbooks either. I even search for where do protein fold?
to find out if there was a relationship. It doesn't say protein fold in mitochondria and turns out it's a question most scientist are looking for answers.
For whatever protein synthesis I have learnt so far, there was no mentioning of protein strands going into mitochondria but mitochondria as a power houses. What's going on here?
Why would a protein go into a mitochondria? How does it exit and where to?