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New research from Anne Bertolotti’s group in the LMB’s Neurobiology Division reveals that nanomolar ATP-competitive inhibitors of integrated stress response (ISR) kinases unexpectedly activate the ISR at micromolar concentrations by directly binding to and activating a sister ISR kinase.