Beyond autophagy: the expanding roles of ATG8 proteins

JL Nieto-Torres, AM Leidal, J Debnath… - Trends in biochemical …, 2021 - cell.com
The ATG8 family proteins are critical players in autophagy, a cytoprotective process that
mediates degradation of cytosolic cargo. During autophagy, ATG8s conjugate to …

Atg8-family proteins—structural features and molecular interactions in autophagy and beyond

N Wesch, V Kirkin, VV Rogov - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Autophagy is a common name for a number of catabolic processes, which keep the cellular
homeostasis by removing damaged and dysfunctional intracellular components. Impairment …

Macroautophagy and aging: The impact of cellular recycling on health and longevity

JL Nieto-Torres, M Hansen - Molecular aspects of medicine, 2021 - Elsevier
Aging is associated with many deleterious changes at the cellular level, including the
accumulation of potentially toxic components that can have devastating effects on health. A …

Emerging role of the Hippo pathway in autophagy

D Wang, J He, B Huang, S Liu, H Zhu, T Xu - Cell death & disease, 2020 - nature.com
Autophagy is a dynamic circulatory system that occurs in all eukaryotic cells. Cytoplasmic
material is transported to lysosomes for degradation and recovery through autophagy. This …

Phosphoregulation of the autophagy machinery by kinases and phosphatases

M Licheva, B Raman, C Kraft, F Reggiori - Autophagy, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Eukaryotic cells use post-translational modifications to diversify and dynamically coordinate
the function and properties of protein networks within various cellular processes. For …

NEK9 regulates primary cilia formation by acting as a selective autophagy adaptor for MYH9/myosin IIA

Y Yamamoto, H Chino, S Tsukamoto, KL Ode… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Autophagy regulates primary cilia formation, but the underlying mechanism is not fully
understood. In this study, we identify NIMA-related kinase 9 (NEK9) as a GABARAPs …

Canonical and non-canonical roles for ATG8 proteins in autophagy and beyond

SE Reid, SP Kolapalli, TM Nielsen… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
During autophagy, the ATG8 family proteins have several well-characterized roles in
facilitating early, mid, and late steps of autophagy, including autophagosome expansion …

Post-translational modifications of ATG8 proteins–an emerging mechanism of autophagy control

JL Nieto-Torres, S Zaretski, T Liu… - Journal of Cell …, 2023 - journals.biologists.com
Autophagy is a recycling mechanism involved in cellular homeostasis with key implications
for health and disease. The conjugation of the ATG8 family proteins, which includes LC3B …

LC3B phosphorylation regulates FYCO1 binding and directional transport of autophagosomes

JL Nieto-Torres, SL Shanahan, R Chassefeyre… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Macroautophagy (hereafter referred to as autophagy) is a conserved process that promotes
cellular homeostasis through the degradation of cytosolic components, also known as cargo …

[HTML][HTML] NEK9, a novel effector of IL-6/STAT3, regulates metastasis of gastric cancer by targeting ARHGEF2 phosphorylation

G Lu, S Tian, Y Sun, J Dong, N Wang, J Zeng, Y Nie… - Theranostics, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Rationale: Inflammatory stimuli from the tumor microenvironment play important roles in
cancer progression. However, the mechanism of promotion of cancer metastasis by …