Recent advances in Alzheimer's disease: Mechanisms, clinical trials and new drug development strategies

J Zhang, Y Zhang, J Wang, Y Xia, J Zhang… - Signal transduction and …, 2024 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) stands as the predominant form of dementia, presenting significant
and escalating global challenges. Its etiology is intricate and diverse, stemming from a …

[HTML][HTML] NFE2L2 and ferroptosis resistance in cancer therapy

D Tang, R Kang - Cancer Drug Resistance, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
NFE2-like basic leucine zipper transcription factor 2 (NFE2L2, also known as NRF2), is a
key transcription factor in the cellular defense against oxidative stress, playing a crucial role …

Selective suppression of oligodendrocyte-derived amyloid beta rescues neuronal dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease

RM Rajani, R Ellingford, M Hellmuth, SS Harris… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Reduction of amyloid beta (Aβ) has been shown to be effective in treating Alzheimer's
disease (AD), but the underlying assumption that neurons are the main source of pathogenic …

Acidic nanoparticles restore lysosomal acidification and rescue metabolic dysfunction in pancreatic β-cells under lipotoxic conditions

CH Lo, LM O'Connor, GWZ Loi, EN Saipuljumri… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Type 2 diabetes (T2D), a prevalent metabolic disorder lacking effective treatments, is
associated with lysosomal acidification dysfunction, as well as autophagic and mitochondrial …

[HTML][HTML] MARCH7-mediated ubiquitination decreases the solubility of ATG14 to inhibit autophagy

X Shi, W Wu, Z Feng, P Fan, R Shi, X Zhang - Cell Reports, 2023 - cell.com
Autophagy is a fundamental biological process critical to all eukaryotic cellular life. Although
autophagy has been increasingly studied, how its process is precisely coordinated remains …

PANoptosis: Novel insight into regulated cell death and its potential role in cardiovascular diseases

X Gao, C Ma, S Liang, M Chen… - … Journal of Molecular …, 2024 - spandidos-publications.com
PANoptosis, a complex form of proinflammatory programmed cell death, including
apoptosis, pyroptosis and necroptosis, has been an emerging concept in recent years that …

Phosphatidylethanolamines link ferroptosis and autophagy during appressorium formation of rice blast fungus

Q Liu, R Long, C Lin, X Bi, Z Liang… - Molecular Plant …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A cell death pathway, ferroptosis, occurs in conidial cells and is critical for formation and
function of the infection structure, the appressorium, in the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe …

The role of lysosomal membrane proteins in autophagy and related diseases

J Xu, J Gu, W Pei, Y Zhang, L Wang, J Gao - The FEBS journal, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
As a self‐degrading and highly conserved survival mechanism, autophagy plays an
important role in maintaining cell survival and recycling. The discovery of autophagy‐related …

Sulfur starvation-induced autophagy in Saccharomyces cerevisiae involves SAM-dependent signaling and transcription activator Met4

M Prigent, H Jean-Jacques, D Naquin… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Autophagy is a key lysosomal degradative mechanism allowing a prosurvival response to
stresses, especially nutrient starvation. Here we investigate the mechanism of autophagy …

RNF144A inhibits autophagy by targeting BECN1 for degradation during L. monocytogenes infection

B Yang, M Shen, C Lu, Y Wang, X Zhao, Q Zhang… - Autophagy, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Listeria monocytogenes (L. monocytogenes, Lm) is widely used in the laboratory as an
infection model for the research on pathogenesis and host defense against gram-positive …