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SUBMITTER: Dalton RP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3843319 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dalton Ryan P RP Lyons David B DB Lomvardas Stavros S
Cell 20131001 2
Olfactory receptor (OR) expression requires the transcriptional activation of 1 out of 1,000s of OR alleles and a feedback signal that preserves this transcriptional choice. The mechanism by which olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) detect ORs to signal to the nucleus remains elusive. Here, we show that OR proteins generate this feedback by activating the unfolded protein response (UPR). OR expression induces Perk-mediated phosphorylation of the translation initiation factor eif2α causing selective ...[more]