Yuhong Zhang

TL;DR: The cloning of perk is described, a gene encoding a type I transmembrane ER-resident protein that contains a protein-kinase domain most similar to that of the known eIF2α kinases, PKR and HRI that implicate PERK in a signalling pathway that attenuates protein translation in response to ER stress.

TL;DR: Protein kinases that phosphorylate the alpha subunit of eukaryotic initiation factor 2 (eIF2alpha) are activated in stressed cells and negatively regulate protein synthesis, resulting in the induction of the downstream gene CHOP (GADD153).

TL;DR: A signaling pathway initiated by eIF2alpha phosphorylation protects cells against metabolic consequences of ER oxidation by promoting the linked processes of amino acid sufficiency and resistance to oxidative stress.

TL;DR: Malfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum induce cellular stress and activate c-Jun amino-terminal kinases (JNKs or SAPKs), and Mammalian homologs of yeast IRE1, which activate chaperone genes in response to ER stress, also activated JNK, and I RE1alpha-/- fibroblasts were impaired in JNK activation by ER stress.

TL;DR: In this article, the lumenal domains of transmembrane protein kinases (PERK and IRE1) were found to be functionally interchangeable in mediating an ER stress response and that in unstressed cells, both L1 and L2 domains formed a stable complex with the ER chaperone BiP.