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SCIENCE
卷 332, 期 6025, 页码 91-94出版社
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1201396
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- UK Medical Research Council
- MRC [MC_U105185860] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [MC_U105185860, G0600717B] Funding Source: researchfish
Many biological processes are regulated through the selective dephosphorylation of proteins. Protein serine-threonine phosphatases are assembled from catalytic subunits bound to diverse regulatory subunits that provide substrate specificity and subcellular localization. We describe a small molecule, guanabenz, that bound to a regulatory subunit of protein phosphatase 1, PPP1R15A/GADD34, selectively disrupting the stress-induced dephosphorylation of the a subunit of translation initiation factor 2 (eIF2 alpha). Without affecting the related PPP1R15B-phosphatase complex and constitutive protein synthesis, guanabenz prolonged eIF2 alpha phosphorylation in human stressed cells, adjusting the protein production rates to levels manageable by available chaperones. This favored protein folding and thereby rescued cells from protein misfolding stress. Thus, regulatory subunits of phosphatases are drug targets, a property used here to restore proteostasis in stressed cells.
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