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: Regulator of cell death

SZ Liu, SJ Yao, H Yang, SJ Liu, YJ Wang - Cell death & disease, 2023 - nature.com
Autophagy is the process by which cells degrade and recycle proteins and organelles to
maintain intracellular homeostasis. Generally, autophagy plays a protective role in cells, but …

Autophagy and disease: unanswered questions

Y Yang, DJ Klionsky - Cell Death & Differentiation, 2020 - nature.com
Autophagy is a process in which intracellular components and dysfunctional organelles are
delivered to the lysosome for degradation and recycling. Autophagy has various …

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 …

ER-phagy: mechanisms, regulation, and diseases connected to the lysosomal clearance of the endoplasmic reticulum

F Reggiori, M Molinari - Physiological reviews, 2022 - journals.physiology.org
ER-phagy (reticulophagy) defines the degradation of portions of the endoplasmic reticulum
(ER) within lysosomes or vacuoles. It is part of the self-digestion (ie, autophagic) programs …

Organelle-specific autophagy in inflammatory diseases: a potential therapeutic target underlying the quality control of multiple organelles

RQ Yao, C Ren, ZF Xia, YM Yao - Autophagy, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The structural integrity and functional stability of organelles are prerequisites for the viability
and responsiveness of cells. Dysfunction of multiple organelles is critically involved in the …

Autophagy in neurons

AKH Stavoe, ELF Holzbaur - Annual review of cell and …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Autophagy is the major cellular pathway to degrade dysfunctional organelles and protein
aggregates. Autophagy is particularly important in neurons, which are terminally …

Intrinsically disordered protein TEX264 mediates ER-phagy

H Chino, T Hatta, T Natsume, N Mizushima - Molecular cell, 2019 - cell.com
Certain proteins and organelles can be selectively degraded by autophagy. Typical
substrates and receptors of selective autophagy have LC3-interacting regions (LIRs) that …

ER-phagy: quality control and turnover of endoplasmic reticulum

H Chino, N Mizushima - Trends in Cell Biology, 2020 - cell.com
The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is the largest organelle in cells and has fundamental
functions, such as folding, processing, and trafficking of proteins, cellular metabolism, and …

Ubiquitin-dependent and independent signals in selective autophagy

A Khaminets, C Behl, I Dikic - Trends in cell biology, 2016 - cell.com
Selective autophagy regulates the abundance of specific cellular components via a
specialized arsenal of factors, termed autophagy receptors, that target protein complexes …