Pharmacological targeting of endoplasmic reticulum stress in disease

SJ Marciniak, JE Chambers, D Ron - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2022 - nature.com
The accumulation of misfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) leads to ER
stress, resulting in activation of the unfolded protein response (UPR) that aims to restore …

The integrated stress response: From mechanism to disease

M Costa-Mattioli, P Walter - Science, 2020 - science.org
BACKGROUND The integrated stress response (ISR) is an evolutionarily conserved
intracellular signaling network that helps the cell, tissue, and organism to adapt to a variable …

SARS-CoV-2 infection induces beta cell transdifferentiation

X Tang, S Uhl, T Zhang, D Xue, B Li, JJ Vandana… - Cell metabolism, 2021 - cell.com
Recent clinical data have suggested a correlation between coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19) and diabetes. Here, we describe the detection of SARS-CoV-2 viral antigen in …

Endoplasmic reticulum stress signalling–from basic mechanisms to clinical applications

A Almanza, A Carlesso, C Chintha… - The FEBS …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a membranous intracellular organelle and the first
compartment of the secretory pathway. As such, the ER contributes to the production and …

In vivo aspects of protein folding and quality control

D Balchin, M Hayer-Hartl, FU Hartl - Science, 2016 - science.org
BACKGROUND Proteins are synthesized on ribosomes as linear chains of amino acids and
must fold into unique three-dimensional structures to fulfill their biological functions. Protein …

Protein misfolding in the endoplasmic reticulum as a conduit to human disease

M Wang, RJ Kaufman - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
In eukaryotic cells, the endoplasmic reticulum is essential for the folding and trafficking of
proteins that enter the secretory pathway. Environmental insults or increased protein …

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) …

Pharmacological targeting of the unfolded protein response for disease intervention

C Hetz, JM Axten, JB Patterson - Nature chemical biology, 2019 - nature.com
Accumulation of unfolded proteins at the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a salient attribute of
many human diseases including obesity, liver disorders, cancer, diabetes and …

A mitochondrial iron-responsive pathway regulated by DELE1

Y Sekine, R Houston, EM Eckl, E Fessler, DP Narendra… - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
The heme-regulated kinase HRI is activated under heme/iron deficient conditions; however,
the underlying molecular mechanism is incompletely understood. Here, we show that iron …

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

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