Autophagy proteins are not universally required for phagosome maturation.

abstract：:Numerous cardiomyocytes were found to show autophagic vacuolar degeneration in the UM-X7.1 hamster model of human dilated cardiomyopathy, and autophagy-related proteins--i.e., ubiquitin, cathepsin D and Rab7--were upregulated in those hearts. Importantly, Evans blue-positive cardiomyocytes with leaky plasma membranes ...

journal_title：Autophagy

authors： Takemura G,Miyata S,Kawase Y,Okada H,Maruyama R,Fujiwara H

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To maintain proper cellular homeostasis, the magnitude of autophagy activity has to be finely tuned in response to environmental changes. Many aspects of autophagy regulation have been extensively studied: pathways integrating signals through the master regulators TORC1 and PKA lead to multiple post-translational modi...

journal_title：Autophagy

authors： Bernard A,Klionsky DJ

更新日期：2015-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Macroautophagy is induced under various stresses to remove cytotoxic materials, including misfolded proteins and their aggregates. These protein cargoes are collected by specific autophagic receptors such as SQSTM1/p62 (sequestosome 1) and delivered to phagophores for lysosomal degradation. To date, little is known ab...

journal_title：Autophagy

authors： Lee DH,Kim D,Kim ST,Jeong S,Kim JL,Shim SM,Heo AJ,Song X,Guo ZS,Bartlett DL,Oh SC,Lee J,Saito Y,Kim BY,Kwon YT,Lee YJ

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drawing as a way of understanding things better/easier is in human nature, from textbook images through the models and graphical abstracts published in scientific papers to chalk talks during the academic job interview process. As a molecular cell biologist and geneticist, I always find it easier to show a microscopy ...

journal_title：Autophagy

authors： Juhász G

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The N-terminal amino acid of a protein is an essential determinant of ubiquitination and subsequent proteasomal degradation in the N-end rule pathway. Using para-chloroamphetamine (PCA), a specific inhibitor of the arginylation branch of the pathway (Arg/N-end rule pathway), we identified that blocking the Arg/N-end r...

journal_title：Autophagy

authors： Jiang Y,Lee J,Lee JH,Lee JW,Kim JH,Choi WH,Yoo YD,Cha-Molstad H,Kim BY,Kwon YT,Noh SA,Kim KP,Lee MJ

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macroautophagy/autophagy, a fundamental process for degradation of macromolecules and organelles, occurs constitutively at a basal level and is upregulated in response to stress. Whether autophagy regulates protein acetylation and microtubule stability in vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) migration, however, remain...

journal_title：Autophagy

authors： Ouyang C,Mu J,Lu Q,Li J,Zhu H,Wang Q,Zou MH,Xie Z

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many recent studies indicate that dysregulation of autophagy is a common feature of many neurodegenerative diseases. The HIV-1-associated neurological disorder is an acquired cognitive and motor disease that includes a severe neurodegenerative dementia. We find that the neurodegeneration seen in the brain in HIV-1 inf...

journal_title：Autophagy

authors： Alirezaei M,Kiosses WB,Fox HS

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Degradation of intracellular components via macroautophagy is a complex multistep process that starts with the sequestration of cytosolic cargo in a de novo formed double-membrane vesicle or autophagosome. This compartment acquires the hydrolases required for cargo digestion by fusion with lysosomes. In contrast to th...

journal_title：Autophagy

authors： Koga H,Kaushik S,Cuervo AM

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy has recently been implicated in the host defense against the intracellular protozoan pathogen, Toxoplasma gondii, a major opportunistic pathogen of the central nervous system in immunosuppressed individuals. In both IFN gamma-activated macrophages and astrocytes, the p47 GTPases traffic to the T. gondii para...

journal_title：Autophagy

authors： Halonen SK

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the world of pathogen-host cell interactions, the autophagic pathway has been recently described as a component of the innate immune response against intracellular microorganisms. Indeed, some bacterial survival mechanisms are hampered when this process is activated. Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection of macropha...

journal_title：Autophagy

authors： Colombo MI,Gutierrez MG,Romano PS

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of intestinal epithelial turnover is a key component of villus maintenance in the intestine. The balance of cell turnover can be perturbed by various extrinsic factors including the cytokine TNF, a cell signaling protein that mediates both proliferative and cytotoxic outcomes. Under conditions of infection ...

journal_title：Autophagy

authors： Jung H,Leal-Ekman JS,Lu Q,Stappenbeck TS

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia pseudomallei is the causative agent of melioidosis, a tropical infection of humans and other animals. The bacterium is an intracellular pathogen that can escape from endosomes into the host cytoplasm, where it replicates and infects adjacent cells. We investigated the role played by autophagy in the intra...

journal_title：Autophagy

authors： Cullinane M,Gong L,Li X,Lazar-Adler N,Tra T,Wolvetang E,Prescott M,Boyce JD,Devenish RJ,Adler B

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glioblastoma is one of the most aggressive human cancers with poor prognosis, and therefore a critical need exists for novel therapeutic strategies for management of glioblastoma patients. Itraconazole, a traditional antifungal drug, has been identified as a novel potential anticancer agent due to its inhibitory effec...

journal_title：Autophagy

authors： Liu R,Li J,Zhang T,Zou L,Chen Y,Wang K,Lei Y,Yuan K,Li Y,Lan J,Cheng L,Xie N,Xiang R,Nice EC,Huang C,Wei Y

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria are the primary site of energy production in animal cells. In mitochondria, the flow of electrons through the electron transport chain creates a potential difference across the inner membrane, which is utilized for ATP production. However, due to inherent inefficiencies in electron transport, reactive oxy...

journal_title：Autophagy

authors： Zhang J,Ney PA

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy or Type II programmed cell death (PCD) is a major intracellular pathway for the degradation and recycling of proteins, ribosomes and entire organelles. The role of this pathway in the antitumor effect of radiotherapy and in radiation toxicity is obscure. A complicated machinery of genes and proteins is invol...

journal_title：Autophagy

authors： Zois CE,Koukourakis MI

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conserved target of rapamycin (TOR) kinase is a central regulator of cell growth in response to nutrient availability. TOR forms 2 structurally and functionally distinct complexes, TORC1 and TORC2, and negatively regulates autophagy via TORC1. Here we demonstrate TOR also operates independently through the TORC2 s...

journal_title：Autophagy

authors： Vlahakis A,Powers T

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ticks are long-lived hematophagous arthropods and have tolerance to starvation. They can survive without food during the host-seeking period for several months to years. To understand how ticks obtain energy over a long period of non-feeding (starvation), we focused on autophagy, a crucial proteolysis system via the l...

journal_title：Autophagy

authors： Umemiya-Shirafuji R,Matsuo T,Liao M,Boldbaatar D,Battur B,Suzuki H,Fujisaki K

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The etiological agent for anthrax is Bacillus anthracis, which produces lethal toxin (LT) that exerts a myriad of effects on many immune cells. In our previous study, it was demonstrated that LT and protective antigen (PA) induce autophagy in mammalian cells. Preliminary results suggest that autophagy may function as ...

journal_title：Autophagy

authors： Tan YK,Vu HA,Kusuma CM,Wu A

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently shown the roles of an autophagy gene in the regulation of metabolism and metabolic diseases. We identified Becn2/Beclin 2, a novel mammalian specific homolog of Becn1/Beclin 1, characterized the functions of the gene product in autophagy and agonist-induced lysosome-mediated downregulation of a subset...

journal_title：Autophagy

authors： Zhang W,He C

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heme is an essential molecule expressed in many tissues where it plays key roles as the prosthetic group of several proteins involved in vital physiological and metabolic processes such as gas and electron transport. Structurally, heme is a tetrapyrrole ring containing an atom of iron (Fe) in its center. When released...

journal_title：Autophagy

authors： Travassos LH,Vasconcellos LR,Bozza MT,Carneiro LA

更新日期：2017-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Delivery of cellular contents to yeast vacuoles/mammalian lysosomes via autophagy ensures long-term cell survival and extends life span. When cultured yeast cells are grown for a prolonged period of time to enter stationary phase, a nondividing state mimicking quiescence, vacuolar membrane proteins partition into eith...

journal_title：Autophagy

authors： Wang CW

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved catabolic process that involves the engulfment of cytoplasmic contents in a closed double-membrane structure, called the autophagosome, and their subsequent delivery to the vacuole/lysosomes for degradation. Genetic screens in Saccharomyces cerevisiae have identified more than ...

journal_title：Autophagy

authors： Liang Q,Yang P,Tian E,Han J,Zhang H

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Combining two different treatment modalities for targeting malignancies is gaining importance, with preclinical/clinical results indicating higher success rates in eradicating tumors or having longer remission periods. A better understanding of the synergy between the treatments helps in optimizing the dose and time o...

journal_title：Autophagy

authors： Ramakrishnan R,Gabrilovich DI

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The uptake and degradation of cytoplasmic material by vacuolar autophagy in plants has been studied extensively by electron microscopy and shown to be involved in developmental processes such as vacuole formation, deposition of seed storage proteins and senescence, and in the response of plants to nutrient starvation ...

journal_title：Autophagy

authors： Bassham DC,Laporte M,Marty F,Moriyasu Y,Ohsumi Y,Olsen LJ,Yoshimoto K

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In yeast and mammals, selective vacuolar delivery and degradation of whole mitochondria, or mitophagy, represents an important quality control system and is achieved by a cargo recognition mechanism enabling selective elimination of dysfunctional mitochondria. As photosynthetic organelles that need light for energy pr...

journal_title：Autophagy

authors： Izumi M,Nakamura S

更新日期：2017-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:IRGM is a genetic risk factor for several autoimmune diseases. However, the mechanism of IRGM-mediated protection in autoimmunity remains undetermined. The abnormal activation of type I interferon (IFN) response is one of the significant factors in the pathogenesis of several autoimmune diseases. In our recent study, ...

journal_title：Autophagy

authors： Nath P,Jena KK,Mehto S,Chauhan NR,Sahu R,Dhar K,Srinivas K,Chauhan S,Chauhan S

更新日期：2020-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanotechnology is the control and manipulation of materials in the size range of 1-100 nm. Due to increasing research into the potential beneficial applications of nanotechnology, there is an urgent need for the study of possible health risks. Several researchers, including those in our laboratory, have demonstrated e...

journal_title：Autophagy

authors： Stern ST,Johnson DN

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vascular system of plants consists of two conducting tissues, xylem and phloem, which differentiate from procambium cells. Xylem serves as a transporting system for water and signaling molecules and is formed by sequential developmental processes, including cell division/expansion, secondary cell wall deposition, ...

journal_title：Autophagy

authors： Kwon SI,Cho HJ,Park OK

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quercetin, a dietary antioxidant present in fruits and vegetables, is a promising cancer chemopreventive agent that inhibits tumor promotion by inducing cell cycle arrest and promoting apoptotic cell death. In this study, we examined the biological activities of quercetin against gastric cancer. Our studies demonstrat...

journal_title：Autophagy

authors： Wang K,Liu R,Li J,Mao J,Lei Y,Wu J,Zeng J,Zhang T,Wu H,Chen L,Huang C,Wei Y

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a selective degradation system, chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA) is essential for maintaining cellular homeostasis and survival under stress conditions. Increasing evidence points to an important role for the dysfunction of CMA in the pathogenesis of Parkinson disease (PD). However, the mechanisms by which CMA re...

journal_title：Autophagy

authors： Wang B,Cai Z,Tao K,Zeng W,Lu F,Yang R,Feng D,Gao G,Yang Q

更新日期：2016-08-02 00:00:00