Autophagy genes in biology and disease

H Yamamoto, S Zhang, N Mizushima - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Macroautophagy and microautophagy are highly conserved eukaryotic cellular processes
that degrade cytoplasmic material in lysosomes. Both pathways involve characteristic …

Autophagy, ferroptosis, pyroptosis, and necroptosis in tumor immunotherapy

W Gao, X Wang, Y Zhou, X Wang, Y Yu - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
In recent years, immunotherapy represented by immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) has led
to unprecedented breakthroughs in cancer treatment. However, the fact that many tumors …

The role of goblet cells and mucus in intestinal homeostasis

JK Gustafsson, MEV Johansson - Nature reviews Gastroenterology & …, 2022 - nature.com
The intestinal tract faces numerous challenges that require several layers of defence. The
tight epithelium forms a physical barrier that is further protected by a mucus layer, which …

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 in tumour immunity and therapy

H Xia, DR Green, W Zou - Nature reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Autophagy is a regulated mechanism that removes unnecessary or dysfunctional cellular
components and recycles metabolic substrates. In response to stress signals in the tumour …

Pathway paradigms revealed from the genetics of inflammatory bowel disease

DB Graham, RJ Xavier - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a complex genetic disease that is instigated and
amplified by the confluence of multiple genetic and environmental variables that perturb the …

Receptor-interacting protein kinase 1 (RIPK1) as a therapeutic target

L Mifflin, D Ofengeim, J Yuan - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2020 - nature.com
Receptor-interacting serine/threonine-protein kinase 1 (RIPK1) is a key mediator of cell
death and inflammation. The unique hydrophobic pocket in the allosteric regulatory domain …

How autophagy controls the intestinal epithelial barrier

EG Foerster, T Mukherjee, L Cabral-Fernandes… - Autophagy, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Macroautophagy/autophagy is a cellular catabolic process that results in lysosome-
mediated recycling of organelles and protein aggregates, as well as the destruction of …

[HTML][HTML] Biological functions of autophagy genes: a disease perspective

B Levine, G Kroemer - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
The lysosomal degradation pathway of autophagy plays a fundamental role in cellular,
tissue, and organismal homeostasis and is mediated by evolutionarily conserved autophagy …

Cell death pathways: intricate connections and disease implications

M Kist, D Vucic - The EMBO Journal, 2021 - embopress.org
Various forms of cell death have been identified over the last decades with each relying on a
different subset of proteins for the activation and execution of their respective pathway (s). In …