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 …

Autophagy in major human diseases

DJ Klionsky, G Petroni, RK Amaravadi… - The EMBO …, 2021 - embopress.org
Autophagy is a core molecular pathway for the preservation of cellular and organismal
homeostasis. Pharmacological and genetic interventions impairing autophagy responses …

[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 …

Tau-targeting therapies for Alzheimer disease: current status and future directions

EE Congdon, C Ji, AM Tetlow, Y Jiang… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia in older individuals. AD is
characterized pathologically by amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques and tau neurofibrillary tangles in the …

Tau post-translational modifications: dynamic transformers of tau function, degradation, and aggregation

C Alquezar, S Arya, AW Kao - Frontiers in neurology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) on tau have long been recognized as affecting
protein function and contributing to neurodegeneration. The explosion of information on …

[HTML][HTML] Chaperone-mediated autophagy prevents collapse of the neuronal metastable proteome

M Bourdenx, A Martín-Segura, A Scrivo… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Components of the proteostasis network malfunction in aging, and reduced protein quality
control in neurons has been proposed to promote neurodegeneration. Here, we investigate …

Autophagy and the hallmarks of aging

S Kaushik, I Tasset, E Arias, O Pampliega… - Ageing research …, 2021 - Elsevier
Autophagy, an essential cellular process that mediates degradation of proteins and
organelles in lysosomes, has been tightly linked to cellular quality control for its role as part …

Tau: Enabler of diverse brain disorders and target of rapidly evolving therapeutic strategies

CW Chang, E Shao, L Mucke - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND The microtubule-associated protein tau has been implicated in the
pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease and a range of other neurodegenerative disorders …

Autophagy in Parkinson's disease

X Hou, JO Watzlawik, FC Fiesel, W Springer - Journal of molecular biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Impaired protein homeostasis and accumulation of damaged or abnormally modified protein
are common disease mechanisms in many neurodegenerative disorders, including …

Mutant glucocerebrosidase impairs α-synuclein degradation by blockade of chaperone-mediated autophagy

SH Kuo, I Tasset, MM Cheng, A Diaz, MK Pan… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The most common genetic risk factors for Parkinson's disease (PD) are a set of
heterozygous mutant (MT) alleles of the GBA1 gene that encodes β-glucocerebrosidase …