Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Associated Diseases — Clinical Biochemistry
Biochemistry · Basic Sciences
How it begins
Análisis exhaustivo de los mecanismos moleculares de la homeostasis de proteínas, la respuesta a proteínas mal plegadas (UPR), las vías de retrotranslocación y degradación, y las implicaciones clínicas de su disfunción en patologías metabólicas, neurodegenerativas, autoinmunes y oncológicas de alta complejidad.
What it covers
- Ultrastructure and Functional Domains of the Endoplasmic Reticulum
- Quality Control of Proteostasis: Folding and Post-Translational Modifications
- The ER Chaperone and Co-chaperone Interactome
- Calcium Homeostasis in the ER and Signaling at the Mitochondria-ER Junctions (MAMs)
- Lipid Biosynthesis and Xenobiotic Detoxification
- Pathophysiology of ER Stress and the Response to Misfolded Proteins (UPR)
- · Definition and Etiology of ER Stress
- The UPR Response as an Adaptive and Survival Axis
- Via IRE1α: Non-Conventional Splicing of XBP1 and the RIDD Mechanism
- PERK Pathway: Phosphorylation of eIF2α, Translational Attenuation and Activation of ATF4
- ATF6 Pathway: Proteolytic Processing in the Golgi Apparatus
- Transcriptional Regulation and ERSE Response Elements
- ERAD (Endoplasmic Reticulum-Associated Degradation) Pathway: Retrotranslocation and Proteasome
- ER-phagy (Reticulophagy): Receptors and Lysosomal Dynamics
- Functional Interaction Networks between UPR and Macroscopic Autophagy
- The Transition to Apoptosis Induced by ER Stress
- · Molecular Mechanism of the Adaptive-Apoptotic Transition: The Point of No Return
- Fine Regulation by CHOP (GADD153): Repression of Bcl-2 and Induction of BIM/PUMA
- ASK1 Kinase and the JNK Cascade Mediated by the IRE1α-TRAF2 Complex
- Activation of Specific Caspases of the ER Membrane
- Proinflammatory Responses and Stress-Induced NLRP3 Inflammasome
- Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Pancreatic β Cell Dysfunction
- Obesity and Insulin Resistance: The Role of JNK and IRS-1
- Hepatic Steatosis and Metabolic Steatohepatitis (MASLD/MASH)
- Dyslipidemias, Macrophage Dysfunction and Atherosclerosis
- Alzheimer's Disease and Tauopathies
- Parkinson's Disease, α-Synuclein and ERAD Pathway Dysfunction
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
- Huntington's Disease and Polyglutamine Proteins
- Cerebral Ischemia and Reperfusion Injury
- Molecular Oncology and Tumor Microenvironment
- · ER Stress in the Tumor Microenvironment (TME)
- Paracrine Immunosuppression Mediated by ER Stress in the TME
- Chemotherapeutic Resistance and the Cell Surface Chaperone sGRP78
- Autoimmune, Inflammatory and Kidney Diseases
- · ER Stress in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
- Rheumatoid Arthritis, Lupus (SLE) and B Lymphocyte Hyperactivity
- Nephropathies and Podocytopathies: Focal and Segmental Glomerulosclerosis
- Diagnosis and Biomarkers in Clinical Biochemistry
- · Soluble and Circulating Biomarkers of ER Stress
- Advanced Laboratory Techniques for the Evaluation of ER Stress
- Targeted Therapy, ER Stress Pharmacology and Precision Medicine
- · Chemical Chaperones and Kinetic Stabilizers
- UPR Kinase Modulators: Inhibitors and Activators
- Proteasome Inhibitors and Proteostatic Saturation as an Antitumor Strategy
- Future Perspectives and ER Interactome in Precision Medicine
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- Subject
- Biochemistry
- Category
- Basic Sciences
- Type
- Study Guide
- Sections
- 46
- Reviewed
- 2026-08-02