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Stress, such as heat-shock, hypoxia and hypoglycemia, inhibits the initiation of protein synthesis. The effects of heat-shock on protein synthesis, eucaryotic initiation factor 2 (eIF-2) activity, protein kinase C (PKC), and casein kinase II (CKII) activities were studied in primary cortical neuronal cultures. In neurons exposed to heat-shock at 44°C for 20 min, protein synthesis is inhibited by more than 80%, and is accompanied by a 60% decrease in eIF-2 activity. Steady state PKC and CK II activities were not affected by heat-shock. Vanadate (200 μM), a protein phosphotyrosine phosphatase inhibitor, partially prevented the depression of eIF-2 activity during heat-shock, and increased CKII activity by 90%. In contrast, staurosporine (62nM), a protein kinase C inhibitor, did not affect eIF-2 activity. We conclude that heat-shock causes a change in the phosphorylation/ dephosphorylation of regulatory proteins leading to a depressed eIF-2 activity and protein synthesis in neurons.
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Hu, BR., Ou Yang, YB. & Wieloch, T. Heat-shock inhibits protein synthesis and eIF-2 activity in cultured cortical neurons. Neurochem Res 18, 1003–1007 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00966760
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