Cadmium and cellular signaling cascades: interactions between cell death and survival pathways

F Thévenod, WK Lee - Archives of toxicology, 2013 - Springer
Cellular stress elicited by the toxic metal Cd 2+ does not coerce the cell into committing to
die from the onset. Rather, detoxification and adaptive processes are triggered concurrently …

The UPR in atherosclerosis

AX Zhou, I Tabas - Seminars in immunopathology, 2013 - Springer
Multiple systemic factors and local stressors in the arterial wall can disturb the functions of
endoplasmic reticulum (ER), causing ER stress in endothelial cells (ECs), smooth muscle …

The eIF2α/ATF4 pathway is essential for stress-induced autophagy gene expression

W B'chir, AC Maurin, V Carraro, J Averous… - Nucleic acids …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
In response to different environmental stresses, eIF2α phosphorylation represses global
translation coincident with preferential translation of ATF4, a master regulator controlling the …

CHOP induces activating transcription factor 5 (ATF5) to trigger apoptosis in response to perturbations in protein homeostasis

BF Teske, ME Fusakio, D Zhou, J Shan… - Molecular biology of …, 2013 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Environmental stresses that disrupt protein homeostasis induce phosphorylation of eIF2,
triggering repression of global protein synthesis coincident with preferential translation of …

Mesenchymal stem cells and endothelial progenitor cells decrease renal injury in experimental swine renal artery stenosis through different mechanisms

XY Zhu, V Urbieta-Caceres, JD Krier, SC Textor… - Stem …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Endothelial progenitor cells (EPC) and mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) augment tissue
repair but possess slightly different properties. How the cellular phenotype affects the …

C/EBP homologous protein (CHOP) contributes to suppression of metabolic genes during endoplasmic reticulum stress in the liver

MR Chikka, DDZ McCabe, HM Tyra… - Journal of biological …, 2013 - ASBMB
The unfolded protein response (UPR) senses stress in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and
initiates signal transduction cascades that culminate in changes to gene regulation. Long …

A self-defeating anabolic program leads to β-cell apoptosis in endoplasmic reticulum stress-induced diabetes via regulation of amino acid flux

D Krokowski, J Han, M Saikia, M Majumder… - Journal of Biological …, 2013 - ASBMB
Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress-induced responses are associated with the loss of insulin-
producing β-cells in type 2 diabetes mellitus. β-Cell survival during ER stress is believed to …

Regulation of the transcriptome by ER stress: non-canonical mechanisms and physiological consequences

AM Arensdorf, D Diedrichs, DT Rutkowski - Frontiers in genetics, 2013 - frontiersin.org
The mammalian unfolded protein response (UPR) is propagated by three ER-resident
transmembrane proteins, each of which initiates a signaling cascade that ultimately …

ER stress and effects of DHA as an ER stress inhibitor

G Begum, L Harvey, CE Dixon, D Sun - Translational stroke research, 2013 - Springer
The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) functions in the synthesis, folding, modification, and
transport of newly synthesized transmembrane and secretory proteins. The ER also has …

CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein homologous (CHOP) protein promotes carcinogenesis in the DEN-induced hepatocellular carcinoma model

V Scaiewicz, A Nahmias, RT Chung, T Mueller… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Background and Aims C/EBP homologous protein (CHOP) plays pro-apoptotic roles in the
integrated stress response. Recently, a tumor suppressive role for CHOP was demonstrated …