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Why is translation of a secreted protein stopped by SRP?

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Brief description of why SRP is used to block translation of a secreted protein.

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Translation is halted so that you can bring the ribosome/mRNA/growing polypeptide to the translocon. It is very difficult to get proteins ...

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