Autophagy genes in biology and disease

H Yamamoto, S Zhang, N Mizushima - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Macroautophagy and microautophagy are highly conserved eukaryotic cellular processes
that degrade cytoplasmic material in lysosomes. Both pathways involve characteristic …

The mechanisms and roles of selective autophagy in mammals

JNS Vargas, M Hamasaki, T Kawabata… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Autophagy is a process that targets various intracellular elements for degradation.
Autophagy can be non-selective—associated with the indiscriminate engulfment of cytosolic …

A conceptual framework for understanding phase separation and addressing open questions and challenges

T Mittag, RV Pappu - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Macromolecular phase separation is being recognized for its potential importance and
relevance as a driver of spatial organization within cells. Here, we describe a framework …

Capillary forces generated by biomolecular condensates

B Gouveia, Y Kim, JW Shaevitz, S Petry, HA Stone… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Liquid–liquid phase separation and related phase transitions have emerged as generic
mechanisms in living cells for the formation of membraneless compartments or biomolecular …

[HTML][HTML] Autophagy in inflammation, infection, and immunometabolism

V Deretic - Immunity, 2021 - cell.com
Autophagy is a quality-control, metabolic, and innate immunity process. Normative
autophagy affects many cell types, including hematopoietic as well as non-hematopoietic …

Sequence-dependent material properties of biomolecular condensates and their relation to dilute phase conformations

D Sundaravadivelu Devarajan, J Wang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Material properties of phase-separated biomolecular condensates, enriched with disordered
proteins, dictate many cellular functions. Contrary to the progress made in understanding the …

Mechanisms of selective autophagy

T Lamark, T Johansen - Annual review of cell and …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Selective autophagy is the lysosomal degradation of specific intracellular components
sequestered into autophagosomes, late endosomes, or lysosomes through the activity of …

Stress granules plug and stabilize damaged endolysosomal membranes

C Bussi, A Mangiarotti, C Vanhille-Campos, B Aylan… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Endomembrane damage represents a form of stress that is detrimental for eukaryotic cells,.
To cope with this threat, cells possess mechanisms that repair the damage and restore …

Autophagy in liver diseases: a review

H Qian, X Chao, J Williams, S Fulte, T Li, L Yang… - Molecular aspects of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The liver is a highly dynamic metabolic organ that plays critical roles in plasma protein
synthesis, gluconeogenesis and glycogen storage, cholesterol metabolism and bile acid …

[HTML][HTML] CCT2 is an aggrephagy receptor for clearance of solid protein aggregates

X Ma, C Lu, Y Chen, S Li, N Ma, X Tao, Y Li, J Wang… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Protein aggregation is a hallmark of multiple human pathologies. Autophagy selectively
degrades protein aggregates via aggrephagy. How selectivity is achieved has been elusive …