The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a complex and multifunctional organelle. It is the intracellular compartment of protein folding, a complex task, both facilitated and monitored by ER folding enzymes and molecular chaperones. The ER is also a stress-sensing organelle. It senses stress caused by disequilibrium between ER load and folding capacity and responds by activating signal transduction pathways, known as unfolded protein response (UPR). Three major classes of transducer are known, inositol-requiring protein-1 (IRE1), activating transcription factor-6 (ATF6), and protein kinase RNA (PKR)-like endoplasmic reticulum kinase (PERK), which sense with their endoluminal domain the state of protein folding, although the exact mechanism(s) involved is not entirely clear. Depending on whether the homeostatic response of the UPR is successful in restoring an equilibrium between ER load and protein folding or not, the two possible outcomes of the UPR so far considered have been life or death. Indeed, recent efforts have been devoted to understand the life/death switch mechanisms. However, recent data suggest that what appears to be a pure binary decision may in fact be more complex, and survival may be achieved at the expenses of luxury cell functions, such as expression of differentiation genes.

Cell fate following ER stress: just a matter of "quo ante" recovery or death? / A. S., Treglia; S., Turco; L., Ulianich; Ausiello, Pietro; D. D., Lofrumento; G., Nicolardi; C., Miele; Garbi, Corrado; Beguinot, Francesco; B. D., Jeso. - In: HISTOLOGY AND HISTOPATHOLOGY. - ISSN 0213-3911. - 27:1(2012), pp. 1-12. [10.14670/HH-27.1]

Cell fate following ER stress: just a matter of "quo ante" recovery or death?

AUSIELLO, PIETRO;GARBI, CORRADO;BEGUINOT, FRANCESCO;
2012

Abstract

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a complex and multifunctional organelle. It is the intracellular compartment of protein folding, a complex task, both facilitated and monitored by ER folding enzymes and molecular chaperones. The ER is also a stress-sensing organelle. It senses stress caused by disequilibrium between ER load and folding capacity and responds by activating signal transduction pathways, known as unfolded protein response (UPR). Three major classes of transducer are known, inositol-requiring protein-1 (IRE1), activating transcription factor-6 (ATF6), and protein kinase RNA (PKR)-like endoplasmic reticulum kinase (PERK), which sense with their endoluminal domain the state of protein folding, although the exact mechanism(s) involved is not entirely clear. Depending on whether the homeostatic response of the UPR is successful in restoring an equilibrium between ER load and protein folding or not, the two possible outcomes of the UPR so far considered have been life or death. Indeed, recent efforts have been devoted to understand the life/death switch mechanisms. However, recent data suggest that what appears to be a pure binary decision may in fact be more complex, and survival may be achieved at the expenses of luxury cell functions, such as expression of differentiation genes.
2012
Cell fate following ER stress: just a matter of "quo ante" recovery or death? / A. S., Treglia; S., Turco; L., Ulianich; Ausiello, Pietro; D. D., Lofrumento; G., Nicolardi; C., Miele; Garbi, Corrado; Beguinot, Francesco; B. D., Jeso. - In: HISTOLOGY AND HISTOPATHOLOGY. - ISSN 0213-3911. - 27:1(2012), pp. 1-12. [10.14670/HH-27.1]
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