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NATURE REVIEWS CANCER
Volume 14, Issue 9, Pages 581-597Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nrc3800
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- US National Institutes of Health (NIH) [DK042394, DK088227, HL052173]
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The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is an essential organelle in eukaryotic cells for the storage and regulated release of calcium and as the entrance to the secretory pathway. Protein misfolding in the ER causes accumulation of misfolded proteins (ER stress) and activation of the unfolded protein response (UPR), which has evolved to maintain a productive ER protein-folding environment. Both ER stress and UPR activation are documented in many different human cancers. In this Review, we summarize the impact of ER stress and UPR activation on every aspect of cancer and discuss outstanding questions for which answers will pave the way for therapeutics.
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