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 …

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 …

The ageing brain: molecular and cellular basis of neurodegeneration

S Azam, ME Haque, R Balakrishnan, IS Kim… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Ageing is an inevitable event in the lifecycle of all organisms, characterized by progressive
physiological deterioration and increased vulnerability to death. Ageing has also been …

Age-related Huntington's disease progression modeled in directly reprogrammed patient-derived striatal neurons highlights impaired autophagy

YM Oh, SW Lee, WK Kim, S Chen, VA Church… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Huntington's disease (HD) is an inherited neurodegenerative disorder with adult-onset
clinical symptoms, but the mechanism by which aging drives the onset of neurodegeneration …

Macroautophagy in CNS health and disease

CJ Griffey, A Yamamoto - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2022 - nature.com
Macroautophagy is an evolutionarily conserved process that delivers diverse cellular
contents to lysosomes for degradation. As our understanding of this pathway grows, so does …

Melatonin and autophagy in aging-related neurodegenerative diseases

F Luo, AF Sandhu, W Rungratanawanich… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
With aging, the nervous system gradually undergoes degeneration. Increased oxidative
stress, endoplasmic reticulum stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, and cell death are …

Autophagy in neurodegenerative diseases: a hunter for aggregates

H Park, JH Kang, S Lee - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Cells have developed elaborate quality-control mechanisms for proteins and organelles to
maintain cellular homeostasis. Such quality-control mechanisms are maintained by …

Oligodendroglial macroautophagy is essential for myelin sheath turnover to prevent neurodegeneration and death

ER Aber, CJ Griffey, T Davies, AM Li, YJ Yang… - Cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
Although macroautophagy deficits are implicated across adult-onset neurodegenerative
diseases, we understand little about how the discrete, highly evolved cell types of the central …

Therapeutic reversal of Huntington's disease by in vivo self-assembled siRNAs

L Zhang, T Wu, Y Shan, G Li, X Ni, X Chen, X Hu, L Lin… - Brain, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Huntington's disease is an autosomal-dominant neurodegenerative disease caused by CAG
expansion in exon 1 of the huntingtin (HTT) gene. Since mutant huntingtin (mHTT) protein is …

Autophagy in health and disease: From molecular mechanisms to therapeutic target

G Lu, Y Wang, Y Shi, Z Zhang, C Huang, W He… - MedComm, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Macroautophagy/autophagy is an evolutionally conserved catabolic process in which
cytosolic contents, such as aggregated proteins, dysfunctional organelle, or invading …