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The unfolded protein response and endoplasmic reticulum protein targeting machineries converge on the stress sensor IRE1

  1. Diego Acosta-Alvear  Is a corresponding author
  2. Gülsün Elif Karagöz  Is a corresponding author
  3. Florian Fröhlich
  4. Han Li
  5. Tobias C Walther
  6. Peter Walter  Is a corresponding author
  1. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Francisco, United States
  2. Harvard Medical School, United States
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.43036
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  1. Diego Acosta-Alvear
  2. Gülsün Elif Karagöz
  3. Florian Fröhlich
  4. Han Li
  5. Tobias C Walther
  6. Peter Walter
(2018)
The unfolded protein response and endoplasmic reticulum protein targeting machineries converge on the stress sensor IRE1
eLife 7:e43036.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.43036
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Abstract

The protein folding capacity of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is tightly regulated by a network of signaling pathways, known as the unfolded protein response (UPR). UPR sensors monitor the ER folding status to adjust ER folding capacity according to need. To understand how the UPR sensor IRE1 maintains ER homeostasis, we identified zero-length crosslinks of RNA to IRE1 with single nucleotide precision in vivo. We found that IRE1 specifically crosslinks to a subset of ER-targeted mRNAs, SRP RNA, ribosomal and transfer RNAs. Crosslink sites cluster in a discrete region of the ribosome surface spanning from the A-site to the polypeptide exit tunnel. Moreover, IRE1 binds to purified 80S ribosomes with high affinity, indicating association with ER-bound ribosomes. Our results suggest that the ER protein translocation and targeting machineries work together with the UPR to tune the ER's protein folding load.

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  1. Diego Acosta-Alvear

    Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States
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  2. Gülsün Elif Karagöz

    Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States
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  3. Florian Fröhlich

    Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
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  4. Han Li

    Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States
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  5. Tobias C Walther

    Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States
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    Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States
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  • Peter Walter

Cancer Research Institute (Postdoctoral fellowship)

  • Diego Acosta-Alvear

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Investigator)

  • Tobias C Walther

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  1. Diego Acosta-Alvear
  2. Gülsün Elif Karagöz
  3. Florian Fröhlich
  4. Han Li
  5. Tobias C Walther
  6. Peter Walter
(2018)
The unfolded protein response and endoplasmic reticulum protein targeting machineries converge on the stress sensor IRE1
eLife 7:e43036.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.43036

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