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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 290, Issue 50, Pages 29695-29706Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M115.684969
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- National Institutes of Health [DP5-OD019800, GM97645, T32HL007627-30, R01-GM061766]
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Stress responses are adaptive cellular programs that identify and mitigate potentially dangerous threats. Misfolded proteins are a ubiquitous and clinically relevant stress. Trivalent metalloids, such as arsenic, have been proposed to cause protein misfolding. Using tandem mass tag-based mass spectrometry, we show that trivalent arsenic results in widespread reorganization of the cell from an anabolic to a catabolic state. Both major pathways of protein degradation, the proteasome and autophagy, show increased abundance of pathway components and increased functional output, and are required for survival. Remarkably, cells also showed a down-regulation of ribosomes at the protein level. That this represented an adaptive response and not an adverse toxic effect was indicated by enhanced survival of ribosome mutants after arsenic exposure. These results suggest that a major source of toxicity of trivalent arsenic derives from misfolding of newly synthesized proteins and identifies ribosome reduction as a rapid, effective, and reversible proteotoxic stress response.
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