with tunicamycin for 1 h and sec61 3 cells were incubated at 20 C for 1. 5 h. Colony blot Yeast were grown on minimal medium at 30 C for 2 d and transferred to nitrocellulose. Nitro cellulose was incubated for 2 d upside down on minimal medium with 1% potassium acetate to increase CPY ex pression, and 10 h on minimal medium with 4 ug ml cy cloheximide. Cells were lysed in lysis buffer and carefully washed with TBS T. CPY levels were detected by immunoblotting with a specific polyclonal antibody against CPY. Secretory precursor accumulation at different temperatures Yeast cells were grown overnight at 30 C to an OD600 1 and incubated for 3 h at 37 C, 30 C or 20 C. Equal amounts of cells were lysed in 100 ul SDS sample buffer with glass beads in a bead beater for 2�� 1 min.

Extracts Drug_discovery were heated to 65 C for 10 min and equivalents of 0. 3 OD loaded for every lane onto 10% SDS PAGE gels. Proteins were separated in MOPS buffer, transferred to nitrocellulose and bands were de tected by immunoblotting with specific primary anti bodies, Sec62p, Sss1p, Schekman lab Primary anti bodies were detected with anti rabbit HRP antibodies and visualized with ECL. Pho8p and DPAPB were detected by immuno precipitation from 1 OD cells labelled for 5 min with Met Cys Mix as below. Pulse chase Yeast were grown overnight at 30 C in minimal medium without leucine to OD600 1. Cells were washed with labelling medium and concen trated to 4 OD ml. For each time point, 250 ul of the suspension were starved for 20 min at 30 C in labelling medium and pulsed for 5 min with 55 uCi Met Cys Mix.

For chase experiments, to each sample an equivalent volume of 2x chase mix in labelling medium was added and stopped by adding 500 ul ice cold Tris azide. The cells were washed with Tris azide, resuspension solution and resuspended in 150 ul lysis buffer and half a volume of acid washed glassbeads. Samples were lysed in a bead beater and proteins denaturated for 10 min at 95 C. Proteins were immunoprecipitated, pre cipitates denatured for 5 min at 95 C in sample buffer, and resolved on 10% SDS PAGE in MOPS buffer and bands detected by autoradiography. Cycloheximide chase Yeast were grown overnight to an OD600 1 and treated with 200 ug ml cycloheximide. An equal amount of cells were removed every 20 min for 60 min and washed with ice cold Tris azide to kill the cells.

Yeast were lysed with glass beads in a bead beater for 2�� 1 min in SDS sample buffer and lysates heated to 65 C for 10 min. After gel electrophoresis on 10% SDS PAGE in MOPS buffer CPY levels were detected by immuno blotting with CPY antibodies and continued as described above. Stability of the trimeric Sec61 complex in sucrose gradient centrifugation Microsomes were prepared as described in. A su crose gradient was prepared from 1 ml 15%, 10%, 5% and 0% sucrose in 50 mM HEPES KOH, pH 7. 5, 500 mM potassium acetate, 1 mM EDTA, 0. 1% Triton X 100, 0. 05% B mercaptoethanol, 1 mM PMSF, and 1�� protease inhibitor cocktail and allowed