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Preservation of liver protein synthesis during dietary leucine deprivation occurs at the expense of skeletal muscle mass in mice deleted for eIF2 kinase GCN2.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 27 Aug 2004
Anthony Tracy G, McDaniel Brent J, Byerley Rachel L, McGrath Barbara C, Cavener Douglas R, McNurlan Margaret A, Wek Ronald C
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In eukaryotic cells, amino acid depletion reduces translation by a mechanism involving phosphorylation of eukaryotic initiation factor-2 (eIF2). Herein we describe that mice lacking the eIF2 kinase, general control nonderepressible 2 (GCN2) fail to alter the phosphorylation of this initiation fac...
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