The ménage à trois of autophagy, lipid droplets and liver disease

Y Filali-Mouncef, C Hunter, F Roccio, S Zagkou… - Autophagy, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Autophagic pathways cross with lipid homeostasis and thus provide energy and essential
building blocks that are indispensable for liver functions. Energy deficiencies are …

Dual role of autophagy in hallmarks of cancer

SS Singh, S Vats, AYQ Chia, TZ Tan, S Deng, MS Ong… - Oncogene, 2018 - nature.com
Evolutionarily conserved across eukaryotic cells, macroautophagy (herein autophagy) is an
intracellular catabolic degradative process targeting damaged and superfluous cellular …

Mitochondria are secreted in extracellular vesicles when lysosomal function is impaired

W Liang, S Sagar, R Ravindran, RH Najor… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Mitochondrial quality control is critical for cardiac homeostasis as these organelles are
responsible for generating most of the energy needed to sustain contraction. Dysfunctional …

[HTML][HTML] Autophagosome-lysosome fusion

P Lőrincz, G Juhász - Journal of molecular biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Macroautophagy is a conserved catabolic process observed in all eukaryotic cells, during
which selected cellular components are transported to and broken down within lysosomes …

[HTML][HTML] Autophagosome maturation: an epic journey from the ER to lysosomes

YG Zhao, H Zhang - The Journal of cell biology, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Macroautophagy involves the sequestration of cytoplasmic contents in a double-membrane
autophagosome and their delivery to lysosomes for degradation. In multicellular organisms …

[HTML][HTML] Who's in control? Principles of Rab GTPase activation in endolysosomal membrane trafficking and beyond

AC Borchers, L Langemeyer… - The Journal of cell …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The eukaryotic endomembrane system consists of multiple interconnected organelles. Rab
GTPases are organelle-specific markers that give identity to these membranes by recruiting …

New insights into autophagosome–lysosome fusion

S Nakamura, T Yoshimori - Journal of cell science, 2017 - journals.biologists.com
Macroautophagy (autophagy) is a highly conserved intracellular degradation system that is
essential for homeostasis in eukaryotic cells. Due to the wide variety of the cytoplasmic …

ISGylation controls exosome secretion by promoting lysosomal degradation of MVB proteins

C Villarroya-Beltri, F Baixauli, M Mittelbrunn… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Exosomes are vesicles secreted to the extracellular environment through fusion with the
plasma membrane of specific endosomes called multivesicular bodies (MVB) and mediate …

Molecular definitions of autophagy and related processes

L Galluzzi, EH Baehrecke, A Ballabio, P Boya… - The EMBO …, 2017 - embopress.org
Over the past two decades, the molecular machinery that underlies autophagic responses
has been characterized with ever increasing precision in multiple model organisms …

Autophagy in cancer metastasis

EE Mowers, MN Sharifi, KF Macleod - Oncogene, 2017 - nature.com
Autophagy is a highly conserved self-degradative process that has a key role in cellular
stress responses and survival. Recent work has begun to explore the function of autophagy …