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Anticipatory UPR Activation: A Protective Pathway and Target in Cancer.

ABSTRACT: The endoplasmic reticulum (EnR) stress sensor, the unfolded protein response (UPR), plays a key role in regulating intracellular protein homeostasis. The extensively studied reactive mode of UPR activation is characterized by unfolded protein, or other EnR stress, triggering UPR activation. Here we focus on the emerging anticipatory mode of UPR activation in which mitogenic steroid and peptide hormones and other effectors preactivate the UPR and anticipate a future need for increased protein folding capacity. Mild UPR activation in breast cancer can be protective and contributes to antiestrogen resistance. Hyperactivation of the anticipatory UPR pathway in cancer cells with a small molecule converts it from cytoprotective to cytotoxic, highlighting its potential as a therapeutic target in estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer.

SUBMITTER: Shapiro DJ

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5035594 | biostudies-other | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Anticipatory UPR Activation: A Protective Pathway and Target in Cancer.

Shapiro David J DJ Livezey Mara M Yu Liqun L Zheng Xiaobin X Andruska Neal N

Trends in endocrinology and metabolism: TEM 20160625 10

The endoplasmic reticulum (EnR) stress sensor, the unfolded protein response (UPR), plays a key role in regulating intracellular protein homeostasis. The extensively studied reactive mode of UPR activation is characterized by unfolded protein, or other EnR stress, triggering UPR activation. Here we focus on the emerging anticipatory mode of UPR activation in which mitogenic steroid and peptide hormones and other effectors preactivate the UPR and anticipate a future need for increased protein fol ...[more]

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Project description:BackgroundBehavioral studies have shown that infants can form associations between environmental events and produce anticipatory actions for the predictable event, but the neural mechanisms for the learning and anticipation of events in infants are not known. Recent neuroimaging studies revealed that the association cortices of infants show activation related to auditory-stimulus discrimination and novelty detection during sleep. In the present study, we expected that when an auditory cue (beeps) predicted an auditory event (a female voice), specific regions of the infant cortex would show anticipatory activation before the event onset even while sleeping.Methodology/principal findingsWe examined the cortical activation of 3-month-old infants during delays between the cue and the event by using multi-channel near-infrared spectroscopy. To investigate spatiotemporal changes in cortical activation over the experimental session, we divided the session into two phases (early and late phase) and analyzed each phase separately. In the early phase, the frontal regions showed activation in response to the cue that was followed by the event compared with another cue that was not followed by any event. In the late phase, the temporoparietal region, in addition to the frontal region, showed prominent activation in response to the cue followed by the event. In contrast, when the cue was followed by an event and no-event in equal proportions, cortical activation in response to the cue was not observed in any phase.ConclusionsSleeping 3-month-old infants showed anticipatory cortical activation in the temporoparietal and frontal regions only in response to the cue predicting the event, suggesting that infants can implicitly form associations between temporally separated events and generate the anticipatory activation before the predictable event. Furthermore, the different time evolution of activation in the temporoparietal and frontal regions suggests that these regions may be involved in different aspects of learning and predicting future events.

Project description:The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) plays an important role in maintenance of proteostasis through the unfolded protein response (UPR), which is strongly activated in most neurodegenerative disorders. UPR signalling pathways mediated by IRE1? and ATF6 play a crucial role in the maintenance of ER homeostasis through the transactivation of an array of transcription factors. When activated, these transcription factors induce the expression of genes involved in protein folding and degradation with pro-survival effects. However, the specific contribution of these transcription factors to different neurodegenerative diseases remains poorly defined. Here, we characterised 44 target genes strongly influenced by XBP1 and ATF6 and quantified the expression of a subset of genes in the human post-mortem spinal cord from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) cases and in the frontal and temporal cortex from frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) cases and controls. We found that IRE1?-XBP1 and ATF6 pathways were strongly activated both in ALS and AD. In ALS, XBP1 and ATF6 activation was confirmed by a substantial increase in the expression of both known and novel target genes involved particularly in co-chaperone activity and ER-associated degradation (ERAD) such as DNAJB9, SEL1L and OS9. In AD cases, a distinct pattern emerged, where targets involved in protein folding were more prominent, such as CANX, PDIA3 and PDIA6. These results reveal that both overlapping and disease-specific patterns of IRE1?-XBP1 and ATF6 target genes are activated in AD and ALS, which may be relevant to the development of new therapeutic strategies. Graphical abstract The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) plays an important role in maintenance of proteostasis through the unfolded protein response (UPR). Two major UPR signalling pathways are mediated by IRE1? and ATF6. Here, we demonstrate that these pathways activate differential gene sets in human post-mortem tissues derived from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) compared to Alzheimer's disease (AD) cases. Our results identify IRE1? and ATF6 specific targets that can have major implications in the development of new therapeutic strategies and potential biomarkers.

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