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Paradoxical Sensitivity to an Integrated Stress Response Blocking Mutation in Vanishing White Matter Cells.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Sekine Yusuke, Zyryanova Alisa, Crespillo-Casado Ana, Amin-Wetzel Niko, Harding Heather P, Ron David
Abstract excerpt
The eukaryotic translation initiation factor eIF2B promotes mRNA translation as a guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) for translation initiation factor 2 (eIF2). Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress-mediated activation of the kinase PERK and the resultant phosphorylation of eIF2's alpha subunit (eIF2α) attenuates eIF2B GEF activity thereby inducing an integrated stress response (ISR) that defends against...
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