The unfolded protein response: Controlling cell fate decisions under ER stress and beyond

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 89-102

  Hetz, Claudio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 6; INOSITOL REQUIRING PROTEIN 1ALPHA; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE RNA LIKE ER KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; AUTOPHAGY; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TYPE; CYTOKINE RELEASE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS; INNATE IMMUNITY; INSULIN RELEASE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA SPLICING; UNFOLDED PROTEIN RESPONSE; YEAST;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS; HUMANS; UNFOLDED PROTEIN RESPONSE;

EID: 84856111924     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm3270     Document Type: Review

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