Description
GADD153, also known as DNA-damage-inducible transcript 3 (DDIT3), is a basic domain-leucine zipper(bZIP) transcription factor of C/EBP family. This protein has been shown to be up-regulated by several stresses, such as amino acid or glucose starvation, endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress, osmotic stress and hypoxia. GADD153 protein may play a role in ER stress-mediated apoptosis and in disease including diabetes, brain ischemia and neurodegenerative disease