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ArticleMolecular cell2021

Ribosome quality control antagonizes the activation of the integrated stress response on colliding ribosomes.

Liewei L Yan, Hani S Zaher

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Article in Molecular cell, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 109 papers.

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109citing papers in PubMed
6.8field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
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109 citing papers in PubMed, 171 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Liewei L YanDepartment of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA.
Hani S ZaherDepartment of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA. Electronic address: hzaher@wustl.edu.
Washington University in St. Louis · US

Funding

THE ROLE OF THE RIBOSOME IN DETERMINING THE FATE OF DAMAGED MRNA-SupplementR01GM112641 · NIGMS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI ZAHER, HANI · 2015 to 2024
$3.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM112641
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stalling during translation triggers ribosome quality control (RQC) to maintain proteostasis. Recently, stalling has also been linked to the activation of integrated stress response (ISR) by Gcn2. How the two processes are coordinated is unclear. Here, we show that activation of RQC by Hel2 suppresses that of Gcn2. We further show that Hel2 and Gcn2 are activated by a similar set of agents that cause ribosome stalling, with maximal activation of Hel2 observed at a lower frequency of stalling. Interestingly, inactivation of one pathway was found to result in the overactivation of the other, suggesting that both are activated by the same signal of ribosome collisions. Notably, the processes do not appear to be in direct competition with each other; ISR prefers a vacant A site, whereas RQC displays no preference. Collectively, our findings provide important details about how multiple pathways that recognize stalled ribosomes coordinate to mount the appropriate response.

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Protein BiosynthesisStress, PhysiologicalEukaryotic Initiation Factor-2Peptide Elongation FactorsProtein Serine-Threonine KinasesRibosomesSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsTime FactorsUbiquitinationUbiquitin-Protein LigasesEukaryotic Initiation Factor-2GCN1 protein, S cerevisiaeGCN2 protein, S cerevisiaeHel2 protein, S cerevisiaePeptide Elongation FactorsProtein Serine-Threonine KinasesSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsSUI2 protein, S cerevisiaeUbiquitin-Protein LigasesalkylationGcn2Hel2integrated stress responseribosome quality controlribosome rescueRNA damage

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PMID33338396
PMCPMC7867595
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