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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL
Volume 20, Issue 6, Pages 1855-1864Publisher
AMER SOC CELL BIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E08-04-0346
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- National Institutes of Health [AG-18001, NS-059367]
- W.W. Smith foundation
- postdoctoral fellowships from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
- Arthritis Foundation
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Insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-II is a hormone with mitogenic activity for many cell types and tissues. We demonstrate that its intracellular processing and secretion strictly depend on the endoplasmic reticulum chaperone glucose-regulated protein (GRP)94. GRP94 interacts physically and transiently with pro-IGF-II intermediates, and its activity is essential for secretion of active IGF-II, thus establishing IGF-II as a client of GRP94. Embryonic stem (ES) cells that lack GRP94 are hypersensitive to stress conditions such as serum deprivation and die by apoptosis because they cannot respond to the stress by producing active IGF-II. This chaperone-client interaction may explain the previously documented antiapoptotic activity of GRP94 in a number of stress responses.
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