Viral RNA structure-based strategies to manipulate translation

ZA Jaafar, JS Kieft - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2019 - nature.com
Viruses must co-opt the cellular translation machinery to produce progeny virions.
Eukaryotic viruses have evolved a variety of ways to manipulate the cellular translation …

[HTML][HTML] Regulation of translation initiation in eukaryotes: mechanisms and biological targets

N Sonenberg, AG Hinnebusch - Cell, 2009 - cell.com
Translational control in eukaryotic cells is critical for gene regulation during nutrient
deprivation and stress, development and differentiation, nervous system function, aging, and …

Maternal immune activation in mice disrupts proteostasis in the fetal brain

BT Kalish, E Kim, B Finander, EE Duffy, H Kim… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Maternal infection and inflammation during pregnancy are associated with
neurodevelopmental disorders in offspring, but little is understood about the molecular …

Translation from unconventional 5′ start sites drives tumour initiation

A Sendoel, JG Dunn, EH Rodriguez, S Naik… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
We are just beginning to understand how translational control affects tumour initiation and
malignancy. Here we use an epidermis-specific, in vivo ribosome profiling strategy to …

Translation of 5′ leaders is pervasive in genes resistant to eIF2 repression

DE Andreev, PBF O'Connor, C Fahey, EM Kenny… - elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
Eukaryotic cells rapidly reduce protein synthesis in response to various stress conditions.
This can be achieved by the phosphorylation-mediated inactivation of a key translation …

Cellular IRES-mediated translation: the war of ITAFs in pathophysiological states

AA Komar, M Hatzoglou - Cell cycle, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Translation of cellular mRNAs via initiation at Internal Ribosome Entry Sites (IRESs) has
received increased attention during recent years due to its emerging significance for many …

Inhibition of PI3K/mTOR leads to adaptive resistance in matrix-attached cancer cells

T Muranen, LM Selfors, DT Worster, MP Iwanicki… - Cancer cell, 2012 - cell.com
Summary The PI3K/mTOR-pathway is the most commonly dysregulated pathway in
epithelial cancers and represents an important target for cancer therapeutics. Here, we show …

A unique ISR program determines cellular responses to chronic stress

BJ Guan, V van Hoef, R Jobava, O Elroy-Stein… - Molecular cell, 2017 - cell.com
The integrated stress response (ISR) is a homeostatic mechanism induced by endoplasmic
reticulum (ER) stress. In acute/transient ER stress, decreased global protein synthesis and …

The role of host eIF2α in viral infection

Y Liu, M Wang, A Cheng, Q Yang, Y Wu, R Jia, M Liu… - Virology journal, 2020 - Springer
Background eIF2α is a regulatory node that controls protein synthesis initiation by its
phosphorylation or dephosphorylation. General control nonderepressible-2 (GCN2), protein …

eIF3j inhibits translation of a subset of circular RNAs in eukaryotic cells

Z Song, J Lin, R Su, Y Ji, R Jia, S Li… - Nucleic Acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Increasing studies have revealed that a subset of circular RNAs (circRNAs) harbor an open
reading frame and can act as protein-coding templates to generate functional proteins that …