The lysosome: from waste bag to potential therapeutic target

H Appelqvist, P Wäster, K Kågedal… - Journal of molecular …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Lysosomes are ubiquitous membrane-bound intracellular organelles with an acidic interior.
They are central for degradation and recycling of macromolecules delivered by endocytosis …

Phosphoinositides: tiny lipids with giant impact on cell regulation

T Balla - Physiological reviews, 2013 - journals.physiology.org
Phosphoinositides (PIs) make up only a small fraction of cellular phospholipids, yet they
control almost all aspects of a cell's life and death. These lipids gained tremendous research …

Chloroquine inhibits autophagic flux by decreasing autophagosome-lysosome fusion

M Mauthe, I Orhon, C Rocchi, X Zhou, M Luhr… - Autophagy, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Macroautophagy/autophagy is a conserved transport pathway where targeted structures are
sequestered by phagophores, which mature into autophagosomes, and then delivered into …

Nanoparticle stereochemistry-dependent endocytic processing improves in vivo mRNA delivery

MZC Hatit, CN Dobrowolski, MP Lokugamage… - Nature Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
Stereochemistry can alter small-molecule pharmacokinetics, safety and efficacy. However, it
is unclear whether the stereochemistry of a single compound within a multicomponent …

Pathological α-synuclein transmission initiated by binding lymphocyte-activation gene 3

X Mao, MT Ou, SS Karuppagounder, TI Kam, X Yin… - Science, 2016 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative
disorder and leads to slowness of movement, tremor, rigidity, and, in the later stages of PD …

Role of Rab GTPases in membrane traffic and cell physiology

AH Hutagalung, PJ Novick - Physiological reviews, 2011 - journals.physiology.org
Intracellular membrane traffic defines a complex network of pathways that connects many of
the membrane-bound organelles of eukaryotic cells. Although each pathway is governed by …

Spastin and ESCRT-III coordinate mitotic spindle disassembly and nuclear envelope sealing

M Vietri, KO Schink, C Campsteijn, CS Wegner… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
At the onset of metazoan cell division the nuclear envelope breaks down to enable capture
of chromosomes by the microtubule-containing spindle apparatus. During anaphase, when …

Phosphorylation and regulation of Akt/PKB by the rictor-mTOR complex

DD Sarbassov, DA Guertin, SM Ali, DM Sabatini - Science, 2005 - science.org
Deregulation of Akt/protein kinase B (PKB) is implicated in the pathogenesis of cancer and
diabetes. Akt/PKB activation requires the phosphorylation of Thr308 in the activation loop by …

Rab proteins as membrane organizers

M Zerial, H McBride - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2001 - nature.com
Cellular organelles in the exocytic and endocytic pathways have a distinctive spatial
distribution and communicate through an elaborate system of vesiculo-tubular transport …

TECPR1 is activated by damage‐induced sphingomyelin exposure to mediate noncanonical autophagy

N Kaur, LR de la Ballina, HS Haukaas… - The EMBO …, 2023 - embopress.org
Cells use noncanonical autophagy, also called conjugation of ATG8 to single membranes
(CASM), to label damaged intracellular compartments with ubiquitin‐like ATG8 family …