ER stress causes widespread protein aggregation and prion formation.

Disturbances in endoplasmic reticulum (ER) homeostasis create a condition termed ER stress. This activates the unfolded protein response (UPR), which alters the expression of many genes involved in ER quality control. We show here that ER stress causes the aggregation of proteins, most of which are not ER or secretory ...
pathway proteins. Proteomic analysis of the aggregated proteins revealed enrichment for intrinsically aggregation-prone proteins rather than proteins which are affected in a stress-specific manner. Aggregation does not arise because of overwhelming proteasome-mediated degradation but because of a general disruption of cellular protein homeostasis. We further show that overexpression of certain chaperones abrogates protein aggregation and protects a UPR mutant against ER stress conditions. The onset of ER stress is known to correlate with various disease processes, and our data indicate that widespread amorphous and amyloid protein aggregation is an unanticipated outcome of such stress.
Mesh Terms:
Basic-Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors, Endoplasmic Reticulum, Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress, Genotype, Membrane Glycoproteins, Molecular Chaperones, Mutation, Phenotype, Prion Proteins, Protein Aggregates, Protein Aggregation, Pathological, Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases, Proteomics, Repressor Proteins, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins, Time Factors, Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases, Unfolded Protein Response
J. Cell Biol.
Date: Aug. 07, 2017
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