Mitochondria as a cellular hub in infection and inflammation

P Andrieux, C Chevillard, E Cunha-Neto… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Mitochondria are the energy center of the cell. They are found in the cell cytoplasm as
dynamic networks where they adapt energy production based on the cell's needs. They are …

AMPK: guardian of metabolism and mitochondrial homeostasis

S Herzig, RJ Shaw - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2018 - nature.com
Cells constantly adapt their metabolism to meet their energy needs and respond to nutrient
availability. Eukaryotes have evolved a very sophisticated system to sense low cellular ATP …

Macrophage defense mechanisms against intracellular bacteria

G Weiss, UE Schaible - Immunological reviews, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Macrophages and neutrophils play a decisive role in host responses to intracellular bacteria
including the agent of tuberculosis (TB), M ycobacterium tuberculosis as they represent the …

AMPK, mitochondrial function, and cardiovascular disease

S Wu, MH Zou - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is in charge of numerous
catabolic and anabolic signaling pathways to sustain appropriate intracellular adenosine …

Deficient autophagy in microglia impairs synaptic pruning and causes social behavioral defects

HJ Kim, MH Cho, WH Shim, JK Kim, EY Jeon… - Molecular …, 2017 - nature.com
Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are neurodevelopmental disorders caused by various
genetic and environmental factors that result in synaptic abnormalities. ASD development is …

Modulation of inflammation by autophagy: consequences for human disease

RT Netea-Maier, TS Plantinga, FL van de Veerdonk… - Autophagy, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Autophagy and inflammation are 2 fundamental biological processes involved in both
physiological and pathological conditions. Through its crucial role in maintaining cellular …

Antagonizing peroxisome proliferator‐activated receptor γ facilitates M1‐to‐M2 shift of microglia by enhancing autophagy via the LKB 1–AMPK signaling pathway

J Ji, TF Xue, XD Guo, J Yang, RB Guo, J Wang… - Aging cell, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Microglia‐mediated neuroinflammation plays a dual role in various brain diseases due to
distinct microglial phenotypes, including deleterious M1 and neuroprotective M2. There is …

Autophagy: A new strategy for host-directed therapy of tuberculosis

S Paik, JK Kim, C Chung, EK Jo - Virulence, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Tuberculosis (TB), which is primarily caused by the major etiologic agent Mycobacterium
tuberculosis (Mtb), remains a serious infectious disease worldwide. Recently, much effort …

GABAergic signaling linked to autophagy enhances host protection against intracellular bacterial infections

JK Kim, YS Kim, HM Lee, HS Jin, C Neupane… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is the principal inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain;
however, the roles of GABA in antimicrobial host defenses are largely unknown. Here we …

PPAR-α activation mediates innate host defense through induction of TFEB and lipid catabolism

YS Kim, HM Lee, JK Kim, CS Yang, TS Kim… - The Journal of …, 2017 - journals.aai.org
The role of peroxisome proliferator–activated receptor α (PPAR-α) in innate host defense is
largely unknown. In this study, we show that PPAR-α is essential for antimycobacterial …