[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 …

Protein arginine methylation: from enigmatic functions to therapeutic targeting

Q Wu, M Schapira, CH Arrowsmith… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs) are emerging as attractive therapeutic targets.
PRMTs regulate transcription, splicing, RNA biology, the DNA damage response and cell …

Liquid-liquid phase separation in biology: mechanisms, physiological functions and human diseases

H Zhang, X Ji, P Li, C Liu, J Lou, Z Wang… - Science China Life …, 2020 - Springer
Cells are compartmentalized by numerous membrane-enclosed organelles and
membraneless compartments to ensure that a wide variety of cellular activities occur in a …

A new phase of networking: the molecular composition and regulatory dynamics of mammalian stress granules

SR Millar, JQ Huang, KJ Schreiber, YC Tsai… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Stress granules (SGs) are cytosolic biomolecular condensates that form in response to
cellular stress. Weak, multivalent interactions between their protein and RNA constituents …

Reduced C9ORF72 function exacerbates gain of toxicity from ALS/FTD-causing repeat expansion in C9orf72

Q Zhu, J Jiang, TF Gendron, M McAlonis-Downes… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Hexanucleotide expansions in C9orf72, which encodes a predicted guanine exchange
factor, are the most frequent genetic cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and …

C9ORF72: what it is, what it does, and why it matters

J Smeyers, EG Banchi, M Latouche - Frontiers in cellular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
When the non-coding repeat expansion in the C9ORF72 gene was discovered to be the
most frequent cause of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis …

Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)1

DJ Klionsky, AK Abdel-Aziz, S Abdelfatah, M Abdellatif… - autophagy, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In 2008, we published the first set of guidelines for standardizing research in autophagy.
Since then, this topic has received increasing attention, and many scientists have entered …

Chronic optogenetic induction of stress granules is cytotoxic and reveals the evolution of ALS-FTD pathology

P Zhang, B Fan, P Yang, J Temirov, J Messing, HJ Kim… - elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Stress granules (SGs) are non-membrane-bound RNA-protein granules that assemble
through phase separation in response to cellular stress. Disturbances in SG dynamics have …

Stress granule homeostasis is modulated by TRIM21-mediated ubiquitination of G3BP1 and autophagy-dependent elimination of stress granules

C Yang, Z Wang, Y Kang, Q Yi, T Wang, Y Bai, Y Liu - Autophagy, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Eukaryotic stress granules (SGs) are highly dynamic assemblies of untranslated mRNAs
and proteins that form through liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) under cellular stress …

ALS-FTLD-linked mutations of SQSTM1/p62 disrupt selective autophagy and NFE2L2/NRF2 anti-oxidative stress pathway

Z Deng, J Lim, Q Wang, K Purtell, S Wu, GM Palomo… - Autophagy, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Macroautophagy (autophagy) is a key catabolic pathway for the maintenance of proteostasis
through constant digestion of selective cargoes. The selectivity of autophagy is mediated by …