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 …

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 …

Role of mitochondria in radiation responses: epigenetic, metabolic, and signaling impacts

D Averbeck, C Rodriguez-Lafrasse - International journal of molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Until recently, radiation effects have been considered to be mainly due to nuclear DNA
damage and their management by repair mechanisms. However, molecular biology studies …

Higher-order organization of biomolecular condensates

CM Fare, A Villani, LE Drake, J Shorter - Open biology, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A guiding principle of biology is that biochemical reactions must be organized in space and
time. One way this spatio-temporal organization is achieved is through liquid–liquid phase …

Autophagosome biogenesis comes out of the black box

C Chang, LE Jensen, JH Hurley - Nature cell biology, 2021 - nature.com
Macroautophagic clearance of cytosolic materials entails the initiation, growth and closure of
autophagosomes. Cargo triggers the assembly of a web of cargo receptors and core …

Protective mechanism of humanin against oxidative stress in aging-related cardiovascular diseases

H Cai, Y Liu, H Men, Y Zheng - Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Physiological reactive oxygen species (ROS) are important regulators of intercellular signal
transduction. Oxidative and antioxidation systems maintain a dynamic balance under …

Intracellular wetting mediates contacts between liquid compartments and membrane-bound organelles

H Kusumaatmaja, AI May, RL Knorr - Journal of Cell Biology, 2021 - rupress.org
Protein-rich droplets, such as stress granules, P-bodies, and the nucleolus, perform diverse
and specialized cellular functions. Recent evidence has shown the droplets, which are also …

The pathways underlying the multiple roles of p62 in inflammation and cancer

P Hennig, G Fenini, M Di Filippo, T Karakaya, HD Beer - Biomedicines, 2021 - mdpi.com
p62 is a highly conserved, multi-domain, and multi-functional adaptor protein critically
involved in several important cellular processes. Via its pronounced domain architecture …

Selective autophagy

MO Faruk, Y Ichimura, M Komatsu - Cancer science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
While starvation‐induced autophagy is thought to randomly degrade cellular components,
under certain circumstances autophagy selectively recognizes, sequesters, and degrades …

Phosphoproteomic identification of ULK substrates reveals VPS15‐dependent ULK/VPS34 interplay in the regulation of autophagy

TJ Mercer, Y Ohashi, S Boeing, HBJ Jefferies… - The EMBO …, 2021 - embopress.org
Autophagy is a process through which intracellular cargoes are catabolised inside
lysosomes. It involves the formation of autophagosomes initiated by the serine/threonine …