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A  by Ó³»­´«Ã½ associate member Gökhan Hotamisligil, first author Takahisa Nakamura of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, and colleagues identifies components of a pathway— including a complex between double-stranded RNA-dependent kinase (PKR) and TAR RNA-binding protein (TRBP)—that integrates metabolic cues, stress signals, translational regulation, and the metabolically driven inflammatory response in obesity-related pathogenesis. These findings uncover a potential link between RNA metabolism and endogenous dsRNA-mediated signaling in the initiation and maintenance of a metabolic inflammatory state and provide potential targets for the treatment of chronic stress-related diseases including obesity-induced metabolic diseases. Their paper can be found online in Cell Reports.