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ATF6 and ER Stress: Potential Cancer BioMarker?

By: Stephen Jones

ATF6 is a constitutively expressed, endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membrane-anchored transcription factor and is a key transcriptional activator of the unfolded protein response (reviewed in Shen and Prywes, and Groenendyk and Michalak). More>>

Active ATF6 is implicated in a number of disease states including myocardial infarction, atherosclerosis, neurodegenerative diseases (i.e. Alzheimer's), Charcot-Marie Tooth Disease, Cystic Fibrosis, and cancer.

The significance of over-expression of active (nuclear) ATF6 in a subset of immune system cancers remains to be elucidated. Further studies should help elucidate the potential role of active ATF6 in immune cell tumors and other cancers. Research may also demonstrate the utility of ATF6 as a novel biomarker for disease, or as part of a panel of antibodies that could be employed to discover and validate new protein BioMarkers.

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