Ubiquitin-like protein conjugation: structures, chemistry, and mechanism

L Cappadocia, CD Lima - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Ubiquitin-like proteins (Ubl's) are conjugated to target proteins or lipids to regulate their
activity, stability, subcellular localization, or macromolecular interactions. Similar to ubiquitin …

The machinery of macroautophagy

Y Feng, D He, Z Yao, DJ Klionsky - Cell research, 2014 - nature.com
Autophagy is a primarily degradative pathway that takes place in all eukaryotic cells. It is
used for recycling cytoplasm to generate macromolecular building blocks and energy under …

Ubiquitination and selective autophagy

S Shaid, CH Brandts, H Serve, I Dikic - Cell Death & Differentiation, 2013 - nature.com
Ubiquitination has long been recognised as a key determinator of protein fate by tagging
proteins for proteasomal degradation. Most recently, the ability of conjugated ubiquitin …

Mechanisms of autophagy

NN Noda, F Inagaki - Annual review of biophysics, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The formation of the autophagosome, a landmark event in autophagy, is accomplished by
the concerted actions of Atg proteins. The initial step of starvation-induced autophagy in …

Autophagosome formation: core machinery and adaptations

Z Xie, DJ Klionsky - Nature cell biology, 2007 - nature.com
Eukaryotic cells employ autophagy to degrade damaged or obsolete organelles and
proteins. Central to this process is the formation of autophagosomes, double-membrane …

An overview of the molecular mechanism of autophagy

Z Yang, DJ Klionsky - Autophagy in infection and immunity, 2009 - Springer
Autophagy is a highly conserved cellular degradation process in which portions of cytosol
and organelles are sequestered into a double-membrane vesicle, an autophagosome, and …

[HTML][HTML] A role for ubiquitin in selective autophagy

V Kirkin, DG McEwan, I Novak, I Dikic - Molecular cell, 2009 - cell.com
Ubiquitination is the hallmark of protein degradation by the 26S proteasome. However, the
proteasome is limited in its capacity to degrade oligomeric and aggregated proteins …

Autophagic processes in yeast: mechanism, machinery and regulation

F Reggiori, DJ Klionsky - Genetics, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Autophagy refers to a group of processes that involve degradation of cytoplasmic
components including cytosol, macromolecular complexes, and organelles, within the …

Structure of the human ATG12~ ATG5 conjugate required for LC3 lipidation in autophagy

C Otomo, Z Metlagel, G Takaesu… - Nature structural & …, 2013 - nature.com
The autophagy factor ATG12~ ATG5 conjugate exhibits E3 ligase–like activity which
facilitates the lipidation of members of the LC3 family. The crystal structure of the human …

Autophagy: pathways for self-eating in plant cells

Y Liu, DC Bassham - Annual review of plant biology, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Plants have developed sophisticated mechanisms to survive when in unfavorable
environments. Autophagy is a macromolecule degradation pathway that recycles damaged …