ATF4
程序性细胞死亡
癌症研究
生物
转录因子
综合应力响应
细胞生物学
未折叠蛋白反应
细胞凋亡
生物化学
基因
信使核糖核酸
翻译(生物学)
内质网
作者
Yu Wang,Shengqiang Xu,Xiaoxian Zhang,Jie He,Donghui Yan,Yang Zhang-min,Sheng Xiao
摘要
Abstract By activating protective pathways, tumour cells are not only capable of survival in stress, but often associated with increased aggressiveness and metastasis. Activating transcription factor 4 (ATF4) is a major coordinator of tumour cell survival in stress and is commonly overexpressed in tumours. Numerous studies suggested that the ATF4 is a potential therapeutic target for cancer. In this report, we describe that a small ribosomal peptide, RPL41, induced rapid ATF4 degradation. By immunofluorescence staining, RPL41 induced ATF4 relocation from nuclei to cytoplasm, where ATF4 co‐stained with a proteasome marker; the RPL41‐induced ATF4 relocation and degradation were blocked by the proteasome inhibitor MG132. An in vivo phosphorylation study showed that RPL41 induced ATF4 phosphorylation and serine 219 of ATF4 was essential for RPL41‐induced ATF4 degradation. Cells with RPL41 knockdown had significantly increased ATF4, suggesting that RPL41 could play a physiological role in regulating the cellular ATF4 level. RPL41 was capable of inducing tumour cell death and cell cycle arrest; at low dose, RPL41 sensitized tumour cells A549 to the DNA damage agent cisplatin. These studies suggest that RPL41, a small peptide that is chemically synthesizable and capable of self‐cell penetration, may have potential as an anti‐ATF4 agent for cancer therapy. Copyright © 2011 Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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