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Here, we found that a multikinase inhibitor, GZD824, which we identified using a cell-based assay with ATF4 immunostaining, inhibited the GCN2 pathway in cancer cells. Indeed, GZD824 suppressed GCN2 activation, eIF2α phosphorylation, and ATF4 induction during amino acid starvation stress. However, at lower nonsuppressive concentrations, GZD824 paradoxically stimulated eIF2α phosphorylation and ATF4 expression in a GCN2-dependent manner under unstressed conditions. Such dual properties conceivably arose from a direct effect on GCN2, as also observed in a cell-free GCN2 kinase assay and shared by a selective GCN2 inhibitor. Consistent with the GCN2 pathway inhibition, GZD824 sensitized certain cancer cells to amino acid starvation stress similarly to ATF4 knockdown. These results establish GZD824 as a multikinase GCN2 inhibitor and may enhance its utility as a drug under development. SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT: GZD824, as a direct general control nonderepressible 2 (GCN2) inhibitor, suppresses activation of the integrated stress response during amino acid limitation, whereas it paradoxically stimulates this stress-signaling pathway at lower nonsuppressive concentrations. The pharmacological activity we identify herein will provide the basis for the use of GZD824 to elucidate the regulatory mechanisms of GCN2 and to evaluate the potential of the GCN2-activating transcription factor 4 pathway as a target for cancer therapy.","is_dataset_classified":null,"base_score":3.367295829986474,"endowment":3.367295829986474,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"views":0,"has_version_chain":false,"is_dataset":false,"is_oa":false,"pmid":"33033108","pmcid":null,"openalex_id":"https://openalex.org/W3091961175","authors":[],"funders":[],"total_grants":0,"fwci":1.6168,"citation_percentile":0.8194192,"influential_citations":0,"citation_trend":[{"year":2021,"count":5},{"year":2022,"count":3},{"year":2023,"count":8},{"year":2024,"count":8},{"year":2025,"count":3},{"year":2026,"count":1}],"oa_status":"bronze","license":"https://www.elsevier.com/legal/tdmrep-license","oa_locations":[{"url":"https://molpharm.aspetjournals.org/content/molpharm/98/6/669.full.pdf","host_type":"journal"},{"url":"https://molpharm.aspetjournals.org/content/molpharm/98/6/669.full.pdf","host_type":"publisher"},{"url":"https://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0026895X24010812?httpAccept=text/xml","host_type":"publisher"},{"url":"https://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0026895X24010812?httpAccept=text/plain","host_type":"publisher"},{"url":"https://syndication.highwire.org/content/doi/10.1124/molpharm.120.000070","host_type":"publisher"},{"url":"https://doi.org/10.1124/molpharm.120.000070","host_type":"journal"},{"url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33033108","host_type":"repository"}],"fields_of_study":["Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease","Genomics, phytochemicals, and oxidative stress","RNA regulation and disease","Activating Transcription Factor 4","Amino Acids","Benzamides","Cell Line, Tumor","Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor","Eukaryotic Initiation Factor-2","Gene Knockdown Techniques","Humans","Neoplasms","Phosphorylation","Protein Kinase Inhibitors","Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases","Pyrazoles","Signal Transduction","Stress, Physiological","Alkynes","Piperidines","Pyridines"],"mesh_terms":["Alkynes","Amino Acids","Benzamides","Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor","Humans","Neoplasms","Phosphorylation","Piperidines","Pyrazoles","Pyridines","Stress, Physiological","Signal Transduction","Eukaryotic Initiation Factor-2","Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases","Cell Line, Tumor","Protein Kinase Inhibitors","Activating Transcription Factor 4","Gene Knockdown Techniques"],"keywords":["Integrated stress response","ATF4","Kinase","eIF2","Cancer cell","Signal transduction","Phosphorylation","Biology","Amino acid","Cell biology","Transcription factor","Biochemistry","Unfolded protein response","Chemistry","Cancer","Messenger RNA","Translation (biology)","Apoptosis"],"sdg_mappings":[{"sdg_number":0,"sdg_label":"Good health and well-being"}],"linked_datasets":[],"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"database_accessions":[],"source":"live","citation_network_status":"fetched"},"created_at":"2026-08-05T16:53:03.324095Z","pmid":null,"pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}