Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Translational induction of ATF4 during integrated stress response requires noncanonical initiation factors eIF2D and DENR

  • Deepika Vasudevan,
  • Sarah D. Neuman,
  • Amy Yang,
  • Lea Lough,
  • Brian Brown,
  • Arash Bashirullah,
  • Timothy Cardozo,
  • Hyung Don Ryoo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18453-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Translation of ATF4 mRNA is stimulated during the integrated stress response. Here the authors show that two noncanonical translation initiation factors eIF2D and DENR are required for translational induction of ATF4 mRNA in Drosophila and human cells.