Mechanisms tailoring the expression of heat shock proteins to proteostasis challenges

LRA Boopathy, S Jacob-Tomas, C Alecki… - Journal of Biological …, 2022 - jbc.org
All cells possess an internal stress response to cope with environmental and
pathophysiological challenges. Upon stress, cells reprogram their molecular functions to …

Stress granules: the Tao of RNA triage

P Anderson, N Kedersha - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2008 - cell.com
Cytoplasmic RNA structures such as stress granules (SGs) and processing bodies (PBs) are
functional byproducts of mRNA metabolism, sharing substrate mRNA, dynamic properties …

Dynamic m6A mRNA methylation directs translational control of heat shock response

J Zhou, J Wan, X Gao, X Zhang, SR Jaffrey, SB Qian - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
The most abundant mRNA post-transcriptional modification is N 6-methyladenosine (m6A),
which has broad roles in RNA biology,,,,. In mammalian cells, the asymmetric distribution of …

Pervasive translation of circular RNAs driven by short IRES-like elements

X Fan, Y Yang, C Chen, Z Wang - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Some circular RNAs (circRNAs) were found to be translated through IRES-driven
mechanism, however the scope and functions of circRNA translation are unclear because …

More than just scanning: the importance of cap-independent mRNA translation initiation for cellular stress response and cancer

R Lacerda, J Menezes, L Romão - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2017 - Springer
The scanning model for eukaryotic mRNA translation initiation states that the small
ribosomal subunit, along with initiation factors, binds at the cap structure at the 5′ end of …

Searching for IRES

SD Baird, M Turcotte, RG Korneluk, M Holcik - Rna, 2006 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
The cell has many ways to regulate the production of proteins. One mechanism is through
the changes to the machinery of translation initiation. These alterations favor the translation …

[HTML][HTML] Regulation of survival gene hsp70

JT Silver, EG Noble - Cell Stress and Chaperones, 2012 - Elsevier
Rapid expression of the survival gene, inducible heat shock protein 70 (hsp70), is critical for
mounting cytoprotection against severe cellular stress, like elevated temperature. Hsp70 …

Translation acrobatics: how cancer cells exploit alternate modes of translational initiation

A Sriram, J Bohlen, AA Teleman - EMBO reports, 2018 - embopress.org
Recent work has brought to light many different mechanisms of translation initiation that
function in cells in parallel to canonical cap‐dependent initiation. This has important …

Translational regulations in response to endoplasmic reticulum stress in cancers

M Jaud, C Philippe, D Di Bella, W Tang, S Pyronnet… - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
During carcinogenesis, almost all the biological processes are modified in one way or
another. Among these biological processes affected, anomalies in protein synthesis are …

PRMT5 regulates IRES-dependent translation via methylation of hnRNP A1

G Gao, S Dhar, MT Bedford - Nucleic acids research, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The type II arginine methyltransferase PRMT5 is responsible for the symmetric dimethylation
of histone to generate the H3R8me2s and H4R3me2s marks, which correlate with the …