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SUBMITTER: Reid DW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4911741 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Reid David W DW Tay Angeline S L AS Sundaram Jeyapriya R JR Lee Irene C J IC Chen Qiang Q George Simi E SE Nicchitta Christopher V CV Shenolikar Shirish S
Molecular and cellular biology 20160615 13
Phosphorylation of eukaryotic initiation factor 2α (eIF2α) controls transcriptome-wide changes in mRNA translation in stressed cells. While phosphorylated eIF2α (P-eIF2α) attenuates global protein synthesis, mRNAs encoding stress proteins are more efficiently translated. Two eIF2α phosphatases, containing GADD34 and CReP, catalyze P-eIF2α dephosphorylation. The current view of GADD34, whose transcription is stress induced, is that it functions in a feedback loop to resolve cell stress. In contra ...[more]