The mechanisms and roles of selective autophagy in mammals

JNS Vargas, M Hamasaki, T Kawabata… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Autophagy is a process that targets various intracellular elements for degradation.
Autophagy can be non-selective—associated with the indiscriminate engulfment of cytosolic …

Endoplasmic reticulum stress: molecular mechanism and therapeutic targets

X Chen, C Shi, M He, S Xiong, X Xia - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2023 - nature.com
The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) functions as a quality-control organelle for protein
homeostasis, or “proteostasis”. The protein quality control systems involve ER-associated …

A new era in functional genomics screens

L Przybyla, LA Gilbert - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
The past 25 years of genomics research first revealed which genes are encoded by the
human genome and then a detailed catalogue of human genome variation associated with …

Autophagy: Regulator of cell death

SZ Liu, SJ Yao, H Yang, SJ Liu, YJ Wang - Cell death & disease, 2023 - nature.com
Autophagy is the process by which cells degrade and recycle proteins and organelles to
maintain intracellular homeostasis. Generally, autophagy plays a protective role in cells, but …

ER-phagy: mechanisms, regulation, and diseases connected to the lysosomal clearance of the endoplasmic reticulum

F Reggiori, M Molinari - Physiological reviews, 2022 - journals.physiology.org
ER-phagy (reticulophagy) defines the degradation of portions of the endoplasmic reticulum
(ER) within lysosomes or vacuoles. It is part of the self-digestion (ie, autophagic) programs …

Ubiquitination regulates ER-phagy and remodelling of endoplasmic reticulum

A González, A Covarrubias-Pinto, RM Bhaskara… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) undergoes continuous remodelling via a selective
autophagy pathway, known as ER-phagy. ER-phagy receptors have a central role in this …

Mechanistic insights into the roles of the UFM1 E3 ligase complex in ufmylation and ribosome-associated protein quality control

R Ishimura, S Ito, G Mao, S Komatsu-Hirota, T Inada… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Ubiquitin-fold modifier 1 (UFM1) is a ubiquitin-like protein covalently conjugated with
intracellular proteins through ufmylation, similar to ubiquitylation. Ufmylation is involved in …

A guide to the regulation of selective autophagy receptors

A Gubas, I Dikic - The FEBS journal, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Autophagy is a highly conserved catabolic process cells use to maintain their homeostasis
by degrading misfolded, damaged and excessive proteins, nonfunctional organelles, foreign …

Autophagy assays for biological discovery and therapeutic development

N Mizushima, LO Murphy - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2020 - cell.com
Autophagy is a lysosome-dependent intracellular degradation system required for various
physiological processes and can be dysregulated in human disease. To understand its …

A cross-kingdom conserved ER-phagy receptor maintains endoplasmic reticulum homeostasis during stress

M Stephani, L Picchianti, A Gajic, R Beveridge… - elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Eukaryotes have evolved various quality control mechanisms to promote proteostasis in the
endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Selective removal of certain ER domains via autophagy …