Mammalian/mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) complexes in neurodegeneration

H Querfurth, HK Lee - Molecular neurodegeneration, 2021 - Springer
Novel targets to arrest neurodegeneration in several dementing conditions involving
misfolded protein accumulations may be found in the diverse signaling pathways of the …

Autophagy and neurodegeneration: pathogenic mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities

FM Menzies, A Fleming, A Caricasole, CF Bento… - Neuron, 2017 - cell.com
Autophagy is a conserved pathway that delivers cytoplasmic contents to the lysosome for
degradation. Here we consider its roles in neuronal health and disease. We review …

Autophagy: The spotlight for cellular stress responses

P Ravanan, IF Srikumar, P Talwar - Life sciences, 2017 - Elsevier
Autophagy is an essential cellular mechanism which plays “housekee**” role in normal
physiological processes including removing of long lived, aggregated and misfolded …

The independence of and associations among apoptosis, autophagy, and necrosis

Q Chen, J Kang, C Fu - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2018 - nature.com
Cell death is an essential biological process for physiological growth and development.
Three classical forms of cell death—apoptosis, autophagy, and necrosis—display distinct …

Compromised autophagy and neurodegenerative diseases

FM Menzies, A Fleming, DC Rubinsztein - Nature Reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
Most neurodegenerative diseases that afflict humans are associated with the
intracytoplasmic deposition of aggregate-prone proteins in neurons and with mitochondrial …

[HTML][HTML] Autophagy and apoptosis dysfunction in neurodegenerative disorders

S Ghavami, S Shojaei, B Yeganeh, SR Ande… - Progress in …, 2014 - Elsevier
Autophagy and apoptosis are basic physiologic processes contributing to the maintenance
of cellular homeostasis. Autophagy encompasses pathways that target long-lived cytosolic …

The ER-mitochondria tethering complex VAPB-PTPIP51 regulates autophagy

P Gomez-Suaga, S Paillusson, R Stoica, W Noble… - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
Mitochondria form close physical associations with the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) that
regulate a number of physiological functions. One mechanism by which regions of ER are …

Autophagy modulation as a potential therapeutic target for diverse diseases

DC Rubinsztein, P Codogno, B Levine - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2012 - nature.com
Autophagy is an essential, conserved lysosomal degradation pathway that controls the
quality of the cytoplasm by eliminating protein aggregates and damaged organelles. It …

Regulation of mammalian autophagy in physiology and pathophysiology

B Ravikumar, S Sarkar, JE Davies… - Physiological …, 2010 - journals.physiology.org
(Macro) autophagy is a bulk degradation process that mediates the clearance of long-lived
proteins and organelles. Autophagy is initiated by double-membraned structures, which …

Mutation in VPS35 associated with Parkinson's disease impairs WASH complex association and inhibits autophagy

E Zavodszky, MNJ Seaman, K Moreau… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Endosomal protein sorting controls the localization of many physiologically important
proteins and is linked to several neurodegenerative diseases. VPS35 is a component of the …