Autophagy in major human diseases

DJ Klionsky, G Petroni, RK Amaravadi… - The EMBO …, 2021 - embopress.org
Autophagy is a core molecular pathway for the preservation of cellular and organismal
homeostasis. Pharmacological and genetic interventions impairing autophagy responses …

[HTML][HTML] The different autophagy degradation pathways and neurodegeneration

A Fleming, M Bourdenx, M Fujimaki, C Karabiyik… - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
The term autophagy encompasses different pathways that route cytoplasmic material to
lysosomes for degradation and includes macroautophagy, chaperone-mediated autophagy …

Machinery, regulation and pathophysiological implications of autophagosome maturation

YG Zhao, P Codogno, H Zhang - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2021 - nature.com
Autophagy is a versatile degradation system for maintaining cellular homeostasis whereby
cytosolic materials are sequestered in a double-membrane autophagosome and …

The many functions of ESCRTs

M Vietri, M Radulovic, H Stenmark - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2020 - nature.com
Cellular membranes can form two principally different involutions, which either exclude or
contain cytosol. The 'classical'budding reactions, such as those occurring during …

Molecular mechanisms of TDP-43 misfolding and pathology in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

A Prasad, V Bharathi, V Sivalingam… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
TAR DNA binding protein 43 (TDP-43) is a versatile RNA/DNA binding protein involved in
RNA-related metabolism. Hyper-phosphorylated and ubiquitinated TDP-43 deposits act as …

ALIX-and ESCRT-III–dependent sorting of tetraspanins to exosomes

J Larios, V Mercier, A Roux, J Gruenberg - Journal of Cell Biology, 2020 - rupress.org
The intraluminal vesicles (ILVs) of endosomes mediate the delivery of activated signaling
receptors and other proteins to lysosomes for degradation, but they also modulate …

[HTML][HTML] Autophagosome-lysosome fusion

P Lőrincz, G Juhász - Journal of molecular biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Macroautophagy is a conserved catabolic process observed in all eukaryotic cells, during
which selected cellular components are transported to and broken down within lysosomes …

Autophagosome biogenesis: From membrane growth to closure

TJ Melia, AH Lystad, A Simonsen - Journal of Cell Biology, 2020 - rupress.org
Autophagosome biogenesis involves de novo formation of a membrane that elongates to
sequester cytoplasmic cargo and closes to form a double-membrane vesicle (an …

An autophagy assay reveals the ESCRT-III component CHMP2A as a regulator of phagophore closure

Y Takahashi, H He, Z Tang, T Hattori, Y Liu… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The mechanism of phagophore closure remains unclear due to technical limitations in
distinguishing unclosed and closed autophagosomal membranes. Here, we report the …

Autophagosome maturation: an epic journey from the ER to lysosomes

YG Zhao, H Zhang - Journal of Cell Biology, 2019 - rupress.org
Macroautophagy involves the sequestration of cytoplasmic contents in a double-membrane
autophagosome and their delivery to lysosomes for degradation. In multicellular organisms …