Cargo recognition failure is responsible for inefficient autophagy in Huntington's disease

M Martinez-Vicente, Z Talloczy, E Wong, G Tang… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
Continuous turnover of intracellular components by autophagy is necessary to preserve
cellular homeostasis in all tissues. Alterations in macroautophagy, the main process …

A role for autophagy in Huntington's disease

KR Croce, A Yamamoto - Neurobiology of disease, 2019 - Elsevier
The lysosome-mediated degradation pathway known as macroautophagy is the most
versatile means through which cells can eliminate and recycle unwanted materials. Through …

Constitutive upregulation of chaperone-mediated autophagy in Huntington's disease

H Koga, M Martinez-Vicente, E Arias… - Journal of …, 2011 - Soc Neuroscience
Autophagy contributes to the removal of prone-to-aggregate proteins, but in several
instances these pathogenic proteins have been shown to interfere with autophagic activity …

Autophagy in Huntington disease and huntingtin in autophagy

DDO Martin, S Ladha, DE Ehrnhoefer… - Trends in neurosciences, 2015 - cell.com
Autophagy is an important biological process that is essential for the removal of damaged
organelles and toxic or aggregated proteins by delivering them to the lysosome for …

The regulation of autophagosome dynamics by huntingtin and HAP1 is disrupted by expression of mutant huntingtin, leading to defective cargo degradation

YC Wong, ELF Holzbaur - Journal of Neuroscience, 2014 - Soc Neuroscience
Autophagy is an essential cellular pathway for degrading defective organelles and
aggregated proteins. Defects in autophagy have been implicated in the neurodegenerative …

The many faces of autophagy dysfunction in Huntington's disease: from mechanism to therapy

CJ Cortes, AR La Spada - Drug discovery today, 2014 - Elsevier
Highlights•The two major protein degradation pathways, the UPS and autophagy, are
impaired in HD.•Dysfunctional macroautophagy, including abnormal cargo recognition, is …

Role of autophagy in the clearance of mutant huntingtin: a step towards therapy?

B Ravikumar, DC Rubinsztein - Molecular aspects of medicine, 2006 - Elsevier
Macroautophagy (henceforth referred to simply as autophagy) is a bulk degradation process
involved in the clearance of long-lived proteins, protein complexes and organelles. A portion …

Huntington's disease: degradation of mutant huntingtin by autophagy

S Sarkar, DC Rubinsztein - The FEBS journal, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Autophagy is a nonspecific bulk degradation pathway for long‐lived cytoplasmic proteins,
protein complexes, or damaged organelles. This process is also a major degradation …

[HTML][HTML] Autophagy in neurodegeneration and development

AR Winslow, DC Rubinsztein - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular Basis …, 2008 - Elsevier
Efficient protein turnover is essential for the maintenance of cellular health. Here we review
how autophagy has fundamental functions in cellular homeostasis and possible uses as a …

Control of autophagy as a therapy for neurodegenerative disease

H Harris, DC Rubinsztein - Nature reviews neurology, 2012 - nature.com
Autophagy is an intracellular degradation process that clears long-lived proteins and
organelles from the cytoplasm. It involves the formation of double-membraned structures …