[HTML][HTML] Ubiquitination of phosphatidylethanolamine in organellar membranes

J Sakamaki, KL Ode, Y Kurikawa, HR Ueda… - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
The covalent conjugation of ubiquitin family proteins is a widespread post-translational
protein modification. In the ubiquitin family, the ATG8 subfamily is exceptional because it is …

A unifying model for the role of the ATG8 system in autophagy

TN Nguyen, M Lazarou - Journal of Cell Science, 2022 - journals.biologists.com
The formation of autophagosomes and their fusion with lysosomes are key events that
underpin autophagic degradation of cargoes. The core ATG8 system, which consists of the …

AlphaFold2-multimer guided high-accuracy prediction of typical and atypical ATG8-binding motifs

T Ibrahim, V Khandare, FG Mirkin, Y Tumtas… - PloS Biology, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Macroautophagy/autophagy is an intracellular degradation process central to cellular
homeostasis and defense against pathogens in eukaryotic cells. Regulation of autophagy …

Stress granules and mTOR are regulated by membrane atg8ylation during lysosomal damage

J Jia, F Wang, Z Bhujabal, R Peters, M Mudd… - Journal of Cell …, 2022 - rupress.org
We report that lysosomal damage is a hitherto unknown inducer of stress granule (SG)
formation and that the process termed membrane atg8ylation coordinates SG formation with …

A guide to membrane atg8ylation and autophagy with reflections on immunity

V Deretic, M Lazarou - Journal of Cell Biology, 2022 - rupress.org
The process of membrane atg8ylation, defined herein as the conjugation of the ATG8 family
of ubiquitin-like proteins to membrane lipids, is beginning to be appreciated in its broader …

Evolutionary diversification of the autophagy-related ubiquitin-like conjugation systems

S Zhang, E Yazaki, H Sakamoto, H Yamamoto… - Autophagy, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Two autophagy-related (ATG) ubiquitin-like conjugation systems, the ATG12 and ATG8
systems, play important roles in macroautophagy. While multiple duplications and losses of …

TDP-43 regulates LC3ylation in neural tissue through ATG4B cryptic splicing inhibition

P Torres, S Rico-Rios, M Ceron-Codorniu… - Acta …, 2024 - Springer
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is an adult-onset motor neuron disease with a mean
survival time of three years. The 97% of the cases have TDP-43 nuclear depletion and …

LC3B conjugation machinery promotes autophagy-independent HIV-1 entry in CD4+ T lymphocytes

B Pradel, G Cantaloube, M Villares, MS Deffieu… - Autophagy, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT HIV-1 entry into CD4+ T lymphocytes relies on the viral and cellular membranes'
fusion, leading to viral capsid delivery in the target cell cytoplasm. Atg8/LC3B conjugation to …

Atg8ylation as a host-protective mechanism against Mycobacterium tuberculosis

V Deretic - Frontiers in tuberculosis, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Nearly two decades have passed since the first report on autophagy acting as a cell-
autonomous defense against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This helped usher a new area of …

To eat or not to eat: a critical review on the role of autophagy in prostate carcinogenesis and prostate cancer therapeutics

NJ Kurganovs, N Engedal - Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Around 1 in 7 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during their lifetime. Many strides
have been made in the understanding and treatment of this malignancy over the years …