The emerging mechanisms and functions of microautophagy

L Wang, DJ Klionsky, HM Shen - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract 'Autophagy'refers to an evolutionarily conserved process through which cellular
contents, such as damaged organelles and protein aggregates, are delivered to lysosomes …

[HTML][HTML] The different autophagy degradation pathways and neurodegeneration

A Fleming, M Bourdenx, M Fujimaki, C Karabiyik… - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
The term autophagy encompasses different pathways that route cytoplasmic material to
lysosomes for degradation and includes macroautophagy, chaperone-mediated autophagy …

Faulty autolysosome acidification in Alzheimer's disease mouse models induces autophagic build-up of Aβ in neurons, yielding senile plaques

JH Lee, DS Yang, CN Goulbourne, E Im… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Autophagy is markedly impaired in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Here we reveal unique
autophagy dysregulation within neurons in five AD mouse models in vivo and identify its …

The coming of age of chaperone-mediated autophagy

S Kaushik, AM Cuervo - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2018 - nature.com
Chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA) was the first studied process that indicated that
degradation of intracellular components by the lysosome can be selective—a concept that is …

Autophagy and disease: unanswered questions

Y Yang, DJ Klionsky - Cell Death & Differentiation, 2020 - nature.com
Autophagy is a process in which intracellular components and dysfunctional organelles are
delivered to the lysosome for degradation and recycling. Autophagy has various …

[HTML][HTML] Autophagy in Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis: Therapeutic potential and future perspectives

Z Zhang, X Yang, YQ Song, J Tu - Ageing research reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex neurodegenerative disease in the elderly and the
most common cause of human dementia. AD is characterized by accumulation of abnormal …

Autophagy and Alzheimer's disease

Q Li, Y Liu, M Sun - Cellular and molecular neurobiology, 2017 - Springer
Autophagy is an essential degradation pathway in clearing abnormal protein aggregates in
mammalian cells and is responsible for protein homeostasis and neuronal health. Several …

Chaperone-mediated autophagy in neurodegenerative diseases: molecular mechanisms and pharmacological opportunities

YT Wang, JH Lu - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA) is a protein degradation mechanism through
lysosomes. By targeting the KFERQ motif of the substrate, CMA is responsible for the …

Therapeutic targeting of BAG3: considering its complexity in cancer and heart disease

JA Kirk, JY Cheung, AM Feldman - The Journal of Clinical …, 2021 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Bcl2-associated athanogene-3 (BAG3) is expressed ubiquitously in humans, but its levels
are highest in the heart, the skeletal muscle, and the central nervous system; it is also …

Patient-specific Alzheimer-like pathology in trisomy 21 cerebral organoids reveals BACE2 as a gene dose-sensitive AD suppressor in human brain

I Alić, PA Goh, A Murray, E Portelius, E Gkanatsiou… - Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
A population of more than six million people worldwide at high risk of Alzheimer's disease
(AD) are those with Down Syndrome (DS, caused by trisomy 21 (T21)), 70% of whom …