Before subjected to heat shock, the ISRIB treatment group cells were pre-treated with 200 nM ISRIB (Merk) for 30 minutes. After heat shock, 100 nM epoxomicin (Sigma) was added for 4 hours. To test the effect of ISRIB on sodium arsenate-induced stress, cells were first pretreated with 200 nM ISRIB for 30 min followed by incubation with 50 µM sodium arsenate (Sigma) for 4 hours. For the proteasome inhibitor titration experiments, Ub-YFP MelJuSo cells were treated with the indicated epoxomicin concentration for 4 hours.