[HTML][HTML] Regulation of amyloid precursor protein processing by the Beclin 1 complex

PA Jaeger, F Pickford, CH Sun, KM Lucin, E Masliah… - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Autophagy is an intracellular degradation pathway that functions in protein and organelle
turnover in response to starvation and cellular stress. Autophagy is initiated by the formation …

[HTML][HTML] The autophagy-related protein beclin 1 shows reduced expression in early Alzheimer disease and regulates amyloid β accumulation in mice

F Pickford, E Masliah, M Britschgi… - The Journal of …, 2008 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Autophagy is the principal cellular pathway for degradation of long-lived proteins and
organelles and regulates cell fate in response to stress. Recently, autophagy has been …

[HTML][HTML] A Becn1 mutation mediates hyperactive autophagic sequestration of amyloid oligomers and improved cognition in Alzheimer's disease

A Rocchi, S Yamamoto, T Ting, Y Fan, K Sadleir… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Impairment of the autophagy pathway has been observed during the pathogenesis of
Alzheimer's disease (AD), a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by abnormal …

Impaired autophagy and APP processing in Alzheimer's disease: The potential role of Beclin 1 interactome

A Salminen, K Kaarniranta, A Kauppinen, J Ojala… - Progress in …, 2013 - Elsevier
The accumulation of amyloid-β-containing neuritic plaques and intracellular tau protein
tangles are key histopathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD). This type of …

BECN1/Beclin 1 sorts cell-surface APP/amyloid β precursor protein for lysosomal degradation

G Swaminathan, W Zhu, ED Plowey - Autophagy, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The regulation of plasma membrane (PM)-localized transmembrane protein/receptor
trafficking has critical implications for cell signaling, metabolism and survival. In this study …

Beclin 1 complex in autophagy and Alzheimer disease

PA Jaeger, T Wyss-Coray - Archives of neurology, 2010 - jamanetwork.com
Beclin 1 is a protein involved in the regulation of autophagy and has been shown to be
reduced in patients with Alzheimer disease. This review summarizes the current research …

Deciphering functional roles and interplay between Beclin1 and Beclin2 in autophagosome formation and mitophagy

JM Quiles, RH Najor, E Gonzalez, M Jeung, W Liang… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The degradation of macromolecules and organelles by the process of autophagy is critical
for cellular homeostasis and is often compromised during aging and disease. Beclin1 and …

[HTML][HTML] Beclin 1 phosphorylation–at the center of autophagy regulation

MB Menon, S Dhamija - Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Autophagy is a tightly regulated catabolic process wherein cells under stress sequester
cytosolic constituents like damaged proteins and organelles in double-membrane vesicles …

Post-translational modifications of Beclin 1 provide multiple strategies for autophagy regulation

SM Hill, L Wrobel, DC Rubinsztein - Cell Death & Differentiation, 2019 - nature.com
Autophagy is a conserved intracellular degradation pathway essential for protein
homeostasis, survival and development. Defects in autophagic pathways have been …

[HTML][HTML] Beclin 2 functions in autophagy, degradation of G protein-coupled receptors, and metabolism

C He, Y Wei, K Sun, B Li, X Dong, Z Zou, Y Liu… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
The molecular mechanism of autophagy and its relationship to other lysosomal degradation
pathways remain incompletely understood. Here, we identified a previously uncharacterized …