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 …

Endoplasmic reticulum stress signals in the tumour and its microenvironment

X Chen, JR Cubillos-Ruiz - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Protein handling, modification and folding in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) are tightly
regulated processes that determine cell function, fate and survival. In several tumour types …

Mechanisms, regulation and functions of the unfolded protein response

C Hetz, K Zhang, RJ Kaufman - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2020 - nature.com
Cellular stress induced by the abnormal accumulation of unfolded or misfolded proteins at
the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is emerging as a possible driver of human diseases …

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 …

A stromal Integrated Stress Response activates perivascular cancer-associated fibroblasts to drive angiogenesis and tumour progression

II Verginadis, H Avgousti, J Monslow, G Skoufos… - Nature cell …, 2022 - nature.com
Bidirectional signalling between the tumour and stroma shapes tumour aggressiveness and
metastasis. ATF4 is a major effector of the Integrated Stress Response, a homeostatic …

[HTML][HTML] Endoplasmic reticulum stress signaling in cancer cells

SA Oakes - The American journal of pathology, 2020 - Elsevier
To survive, cancer cells must resist numerous internal and environmental insults associated
with neoplasia that jeopardize proteostasis within the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Solid and …

Translational control of stem cell function

JA Saba, K Liakath-Ali, R Green, FM Watt - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
Stem cells are characterized by their ability to self-renew and differentiate into many different
cell types. Research has focused primarily on how these processes are regulated at a …

Control of immune cell function by the unfolded protein response

G Di Conza, PC Ho, JR Cubillos-Ruiz… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Initiating and maintaining optimal immune responses requires high levels of protein
synthesis, folding, modification and trafficking in leukocytes, which are processes …

ERα is an RNA-binding protein sustaining tumor cell survival and drug resistance

Y Xu, P Huangyang, Y Wang, L Xue, E Devericks… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Estrogen receptor α (ERα) is a hormone receptor and key driver for over 70% of breast
cancers that has been studied for decades as a transcription factor. Unexpectedly, we …

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 …