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Regulation of starvation- and virus-induced autophagy by the eIF2alpha kinase signaling pathway.

The eIF2alpha kinases are a family of evolutionarily conserved serine/threonine kinases that regulate stress-induced translational arrest. Here, we demonstrate that the yeast eIF2alpha kinase, GCN2, the target phosphorylation site of Gcn2p, Ser-51 of eIF2alpha, and the eIF2alpha-regulated transcriptional transactivator, GCN4, are essential for another fundamental stress response, starvation-induced autophagy. The mammalian IFN-inducible eIF2alpha kinase, PKR, rescues starvation-induced autophagy in GCN2-disrupted yeast, and pkr null and Ser-51 nonphosphorylatable mutant eIF2alpha murine embryonic fibroblasts are defective in autophagy triggered by herpes simplex virus infection. Furthermore, PKR and eIF2alpha Ser-51-dependent autophagy is antagonized by the herpes simplex virus neurovirulence protein, ICP34. 5. Thus, autophagy is a novel evolutionarily conserved function of the eIF2alpha kinase pathway that is targeted by viral virulence gene products.[1]

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  1. Regulation of starvation- and virus-induced autophagy by the eIF2alpha kinase signaling pathway. Tallóczy, Z., Jiang, W., Virgin, H.W., Leib, D.A., Scheuner, D., Kaufman, R.J., Eskelinen, E.L., Levine, B. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (2002) [Pubmed]
 
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