Rachel Green

Substrate Binding Relieves Autoinhibition of the Mammalian GCN2 Kinase

Cells respond to amino acid starvation and translational stress through the integrated stress response (ISR) kinase GCN2. Current models maintain that GCN2 senses these stresses either by binding deacylated tRNAs that accumulate during amino acid starvation or by recognizing ribosome collisions that arise from perturba...