The integrated stress response

K Pakos‐Zebrucka, I Koryga, K Mnich, M Ljujic… - EMBO …, 2016 - embopress.org
In response to diverse stress stimuli, eukaryotic cells activate a common adaptive pathway,
termed the integrated stress response (ISR), to restore cellular homeostasis. The core event …

Role of eIF2α kinases in translational control and adaptation to cellular stress

RC Wek - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2018 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
A central mechanism regulating translation initiation in response to environmental stress
involves phosphorylation of the α subunit of eukaryotic initiation factor 2 (eIF2α) …

Upstream open reading frames differentially regulate gene-specific translation in the integrated stress response

SK Young, RC Wek - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2016 - ASBMB
Translation regulation largely occurs during initiation, which features ribosome assembly
onto mRNAs and selection of the translation start site. Short, upstream ORFs (uORFs) …

Targeting the integrated stress response in cancer therapy

X Tian, S Zhang, L Zhou, AA Seyhan… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The integrated stress response (ISR) is an evolutionarily conserved intra-cellular signaling
network which is activated in response to intrinsic and extrinsic stresses. Various stresses …

Phosphorylation of eIF2α is a translational control mechanism regulating muscle stem cell quiescence and self-renewal

V Zismanov, V Chichkov, V Colangelo, S Jamet… - Cell stem cell, 2016 - cell.com
Regeneration of adult tissues depends on somatic stem cells that remain quiescent yet are
primed to enter a differentiation program. The molecular pathways that prevent activation of …

Transcription factor ATF4 directs basal and stress-induced gene expression in the unfolded protein response and cholesterol metabolism in the liver

ME Fusakio, JA Willy, Y Wang, ET Mirek… - Molecular biology of …, 2016 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Disturbances in protein folding and membrane compositions in the endoplasmic reticulum
(ER) elicit the unfolded protein response (UPR). Each of three UPR sensory proteins …

Natural uORF variation in plants

J Wang, J Liu, Z Guo - Trends in Plant Science, 2023 - cell.com
Taking advantage of natural variation promotes our understanding of phenotypic diversity
and trait evolution, ultimately accelerating plant breeding, in which the identification of …

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 functional meaning of 5′ UTR in protein-coding genes

N Ryczek, A Łyś, I Makałowska - International Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - mdpi.com
As it is well known, messenger RNA has many regulatory regions along its sequence length.
One of them is the 5′ untranslated region (5'UTR), which itself contains many regulatory …

The integrated stress response is tumorigenic and constitutes a therapeutic liability in KRAS-driven lung cancer

N Ghaddar, S Wang, B Woodvine… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The integrated stress response (ISR) is an essential stress-support pathway increasingly
recognized as a determinant of tumorigenesis. Here we demonstrate that ISR is pivotal in …