Targeting autophagy in cancer

JMM Levy, CG Towers, A Thorburn - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2017 - nature.com
Autophagy is a mechanism by which cellular material is delivered to lysosomes for
degradation, leading to the basal turnover of cell components and providing energy and …

[HTML][HTML] Senescence in health and disease

S He, NE Sharpless - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Many cellular stresses activate senescence, a persistent hyporeplicative state characterized
in part by expression of the p16 INK4a cell-cycle inhibitor. Senescent cell production occurs …

Cytoplasmic chromatin triggers inflammation in senescence and cancer

Z Dou, K Ghosh, MG Vizioli, J Zhu, P Sen… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Chromatin is traditionally viewed as a nuclear entity that regulates gene expression and
silencing,,. However, we recently discovered the presence of cytoplasmic chromatin …

Regulation of selective autophagy: the p62/SQSTM1 paradigm

T Lamark, S Svenning, T Johansen - Essays in biochemistry, 2017 - portlandpress.com
In selective autophagy, cytoplasmic components are selected and tagged before being
sequestered into an autophagosome by means of selective autophagy receptors such as …

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 …

Mechanisms and functions of nuclear envelope remodelling

R Ungricht, U Kutay - Nature Reviews molecular cell biology, 2017 - nature.com
As a compartment border, the nuclear envelope (NE) needs to serve as both a protective
membrane shell for the genome and a versatile communication interface between the …

Genomic and proteomic resolution of heterochromatin and its restriction of alternate fate genes

JS Becker, RL McCarthy, S Sidoli, G Donahue… - Molecular cell, 2017 - cell.com
Heterochromatin is integral to cell identity maintenance by impeding the activation of genes
for alternate cell fates. Heterochromatic regions are associated with histone 3 lysine 9 …

The role of autophagy in cancer

N Santana-Codina, JD Mancias… - Annual Review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Autophagy is a highly conserved and regulated process that targets proteins and damaged
organelles for lysosomal degradation to maintain cell metabolism, genomic integrity, and …

Autophagy and the cell cycle: a complex landscape

SG Mathiassen, D De Zio, F Cecconi - Frontiers in oncology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Autophagy is a self-degradation pathway, in which cytoplasmic material is sequestered in
double-membrane vesicles and delivered to the lysosome for degradation. Under basal …

Repair, reuse, recycle: the expanding role of autophagy in genome maintenance

G Hewitt, VI Korolchuk - Trends in cell biology, 2017 - cell.com
(Macro) Autophagy is a catabolic pathway that delivers excess, aggregated, or damaged
proteins and organelles to lysosomes for degradation. Autophagy is activated in response to …