Search results for "EIF2A"

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eIF2α confers cellular tolerance to S. aureus α-toxin

2015

We report on the role of conserved stress-response pathways for cellular tolerance to a pore forming toxin. First, we observed that small molecular weight inhibitors including of eIF2α-phosphatase, jun-N-terminal kinase (JNK), and PI3-kinase sensitized normal mouse embryonal fibroblasts (MEFs) to the small pore forming S. aureus α-toxin. Sensitization depended on expression of mADAM10, the murine ortholog of a proposed high-affinity receptor for α-toxin in human cells. Similarly, eIF2α (S51A/S51A) MEFs, which harbor an Ala knock-in mutation at the regulated Ser51 phosphorylation site of eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2α, were hyper-sensitive to α-toxin. Inhibition of translation w…

lcsh:Immunologic diseases. AllergyMAPK/ERK pathwayImmunologyeIF2αBiologyCycloheximide03 medical and health scienceschemistry.chemical_compoundCellular toleranceImmunology and AllergyInitiation factorpore forming toxinsReceptorOriginal Research030304 developmental biologyGenetics0303 health sciencesKinase030302 biochemistry & molecular biologyJNK Mitogen-Activated Protein KinasesADAM10Translation (biology)MAPKCell biologyEIF2AK4chemistryPhosphorylationCytolysinS. aureus α-toxinlcsh:RC581-607Frontiers in Immunology
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Wolcott-Rallison Syndrome

2004

Wolcott-Rallison syndrome (WRS) is a rare autosomal-recessive disorder characterized by the association of permanent neonatal or early-infancy insulin-dependent diabetes, multiple epiphyseal dysplasia and growth retardation, and other variable multisystemic clinical manifestations. Based on genetic studies of two inbred families, we previously identified the gene responsible for this disorder as EIF2AK3, the pancreatic eukaryotic initiation factor 2α (eIF2α) kinase. Here, we have studied 12 families with WRS, totalling 18 cases. With the exception of one case, all patients carried EIF2AK3 mutations resulting in truncated or missense versions of the protein. Exclusion of EIF2AK3 mutations in…

GeneticsMutationGenetic heterogeneityEndocrinology Diabetes and MetabolismDwarfismBiologymedicine.diseasemedicine.disease_causeMultiple epiphyseal dysplasiaInternal MedicinemedicineMissense mutationEIF2AK3Kinase activityWolcott–Rallison syndromeDiabetes
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Consensus guidelines for the detection of immunogenic cell death

2014

Apoptotic cells have long been considered as intrinsically tolerogenic or unable to elicit immune responses specific for dead cell-associated antigens. However, multiple stimuli can trigger a functionally peculiar type of apoptotic demise that does not go unnoticed by the adaptive arm of the immune system, which we named "immunogenic cell death" (ICD). ICD is preceded or accompanied by the emission of a series of immunostimulatory damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) in a precise spatiotemporal configuration. Several anticancer agents that have been successfully employed in the clinic for decades, including various chemotherapeutics and radiotherapy, can elicit ICD. Moreover, defect…

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UNRAVELLING THE ROLES OF THE NUCLEAR PROTEIN 1 DURING ER-STRESS INDUCTION

2020

Background: NUPR1 was described as a transcriptional factor involved in the regulation of various cellular stress-response genes, playing a crucial role in the condition of the endoplasmic-reticulum (ER) stress, thus emerging as a common molecular factor of different pathologies, obesity, hepatic steatosis, and cancer. In the present work we aim to explore how NUPR1 interacts with some pivotal genes that are the major modulators of the ER stress and metabolic cell functions. In particular we investigated the biochemical and molecular effects arising from the loss of NUPR1 in ER stress physiological conditions. Methods: We used prolonged high fat diet (HFD) feeding to induce ER stress physio…

Settore MED/06 - Oncologia MedicaNuclear protein 1 P8 NUPR1 ER stress ATF6 PERK EIF2alfa cancer obesity hepatic steatosis mouse model metabolism geneSettore BIO/11 - Biologia Molecolare
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