Inflammation & Cell Stress

In response to environmental or cellular stresses, cells initiate a program of gene expression either to cope with the stress by inducing repair mechanisms or to mark the cell for apoptosis leading to cell death. This cellular stress response is a universal mechanism of extraordinary physiological/pathophysiological significance. Compromising the integrity of lipid, protein, DNA, redox status, cell cycle control, protein folding, or any one of many other events can elicit a new program of gene expression that can induce a repair process. Common stress-inducible genes include p53, JNK, AP-1, NF-kappaB, MAPK. The stressed endoplasmic reticulum (ER) responds to misfolded proteins via the unfolded protein response pathway involving ER resident transmembrane kinases and chaperones.

Reagents for Cell Stress Study