“…In addition to HRD1, SEL1L interacts with several components of the dislocation machinery such as the erlectins OS-9 and XTP3-b, both implicated in substrate recognition; derlin-1, previously reported to protect human breast cancer cells from ER stress induced apoptosis [9]. Previous results indicate that SEL1L expression down-modulates breast and pancreatic carcinoma cell aggressiveness both in vivo and in vitro [10, 11], associates with the transition to severe dysplasia in esophageal carcinogenesis, being lost in aggressive esophageal cancers [12], and becomes consistently expressed in the initial stages of prostate and lung cancers [13, 14]. However, no data has yet been reported on the role of SEL1L protein nor of ERAD/UPR in colorectal cancer (CRC), a key model of human epithelial carcinogenesis.…”