Multifaceted role of mTOR (mammalian target of rapamycin) signaling pathway in human health and disease

V Panwar, A Singh, M Bhatt, RK Tonk… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) is a protein kinase that controls cellular
metabolism, catabolism, immune responses, autophagy, survival, proliferation, and …

Lysosome biology in autophagy

WWY Yim, N Mizushima - Cell discovery, 2020 - nature.com
Autophagy is a major intracellular degradation system that derives its degradative abilities
from the lysosome. The most well-studied form of autophagy is macroautophagy, which …

Redefining the role of AMPK in autophagy and the energy stress response

JM Park, DH Lee, DH Kim - Nature communications, 2023 - nature.com
Autophagy maintains cellular homeostasis during low energy states. According to the
current understanding, glucose-depleted cells induce autophagy through AMPK, the primary …

Molecular regulation of autophagy machinery by mTOR‐dependent and‐independent pathways

MAA Al‐Bari, P Xu - Annals of the New York Academy of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Macroautophagy is a lysosomal degradative pathway or recycling process that maintains
cellular homeostasis. This autophagy involves a series of sequential processing events …

The emerging roles of mTORC1 in macromanaging autophagy

AS Dossou, A Basu - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Autophagy is a process of self-degradation that enables the cell to survive when faced with
starvation or stressful conditions. The mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR), also known …

Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)1

DJ Klionsky, AK Abdel-Aziz, S Abdelfatah, M Abdellatif… - autophagy, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In 2008, we published the first set of guidelines for standardizing research in autophagy.
Since then, this topic has received increasing attention, and many scientists have entered …

Urolithin B, a gut microbiota metabolite, protects against myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury via p62/Keap1/Nrf2 signaling pathway

D Zheng, Z Liu, Y Zhou, N Hou, W Yan, Y Qin… - Pharmacological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Ischemia/reperfusion (IR) induces additional damage during the restoration of blood flow to
ischemic myocardium. Urolithin B (UB) is one of the gut metabolites of ellagitannins, a class …

So many roads: the multifaceted regulation of autophagy induction

AF Corona Velazquez, WT Jackson - Molecular and cellular …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Autophagy is an evolutionary conserved, degradative process from single-cell eukaryotes,
such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae, to higher mammals, such as humans. The regulation of …

Chaperone mediated autophagy in the crosstalk of neurodegenerative diseases and metabolic disorders

IE Alfaro, A Albornoz, A Molina, J Moreno… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Chaperone Mediated Autophagy (CMA) is a lysosomal-dependent protein degradation
pathway. At least 30% of cytosolic proteins can be degraded by this process. The two major …

Mechanisms of autophagy in metabolic stress response

AS Gross, M Graef - Journal of molecular biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Autophagy is a highly conserved catabolic pathway critical for stress responses and the
maintenance of cellular homeostasis. Defective autophagy contributes to the etiology of an …