Autophagy in healthy aging and disease

Y Aman, T Schmauck-Medina, M Hansen, RI Morimoto… - Nature aging, 2021 - nature.com
Autophagy is a fundamental cellular process that eliminates molecules and subcellular
elements, including nucleic acids, proteins, lipids and organelles, via lysosome-mediated …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Biological functions of autophagy genes: a disease perspective

B Levine, G Kroemer - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
The lysosomal degradation pathway of autophagy plays a fundamental role in cellular,
tissue, and organismal homeostasis and is mediated by evolutionarily conserved autophagy …

Machinery, regulation and pathophysiological implications of autophagosome maturation

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

Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)1

DJ Klionsky, AK Abdel-Aziz, S Abdelfatah, M Abdellatif… - autophagy, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In 2008, we published the first set of guidelines for standardizing research in autophagy.
Since then, this topic has received increasing attention, and many scientists have entered …

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 as a promoter of longevity: insights from model organisms

M Hansen, DC Rubinsztein, DW Walker - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2018 - nature.com
Autophagy is a conserved process that catabolizes intracellular components to maintain
energy homeostasis and to protect cells against stress. Autophagy has crucial roles during …

Clinical application of whole-exome sequencing across clinical indications

K Retterer, J Juusola, MT Cho, P Vitazka, F Millan… - Genetics in …, 2016 - nature.com
Purpose: We report the diagnostic yield of whole-exome sequencing (WES) in 3,040
consecutive cases at a single clinical laboratory. Methods: WES was performed for many …

Autophagy at the crossroads of catabolism and anabolism

J Kaur, J Debnath - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2015 - nature.com
Autophagy is a conserved catabolic process that degrades cytoplasmic constituents and
organelles in the lysosome. Starvation-induced protein degradation is a salient feature of …

A brief history of autophagy from cell biology to physiology and disease

N Mizushima - Nature cell biology, 2018 - nature.com
The field of autophagy research has developed rapidly since the first description of the
process in the 1960s and the identification of autophagy genes in the 1990s. Autophagy is …