Autophagy and autophagy-related proteins in cancer

X Li, S He, B Ma - Molecular cancer, 2020 - Springer
Autophagy, as a type II programmed cell death, plays crucial roles with autophagy-related
(ATG) proteins in cancer. Up to now, the dual role of autophagy both in cancer progression …

Crosstalk between mammalian autophagy and the ubiquitin-proteasome system

NM Kocaturk, D Gozuacik - Frontiers in cell and developmental …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Autophagy and the ubiquitin–proteasome system (UPS) are the two major intracellular
quality control and recycling mechanisms that are responsible for cellular homeostasis in …

LC3-positive structures are prominent in autophagy-deficient cells

G Runwal, E Stamatakou, FH Siddiqi, C Puri, Y Zhu… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved process across eukaryotes that degrades cargoes
like aggregate-prone proteins, pathogens, damaged organelles and macromolecules via …

Autophagy as a molecular target for cancer treatment

NM Kocaturk, Y Akkoc, C Kig, O Bayraktar… - European Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved catabolic mechanism, by which eukaryotic cells
recycle or degrades internal constituents through membrane-trafficking pathway. Thus …

Ubiquitin-mediated regulation of autophagy

RH Chen, YH Chen, TY Huang - Journal of Biomedical Science, 2019 - Springer
Autophagy is a major degradation pathway that utilizes lysosome hydrolases to degrade
cellular constituents and is often induced under cellular stress conditions to restore cell …

Selective autophagy mediated by autophagic adapter proteins

T Johansen, T Lamark - autophagy, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Mounting evidence suggests that autophagy is a more selective process than originally
anticipated. The discovery and characterization of autophagic adapters, like p62 and NBR1 …

Ceramide targets autophagosomes to mitochondria and induces lethal mitophagy

RD Sentelle, CE Senkal, W Jiang… - Nature chemical …, 2012 - nature.com
Mechanisms by which autophagy promotes cell survival or death are unclear. We provide
evidence that C18-pyridinium ceramide treatment or endogenous C18-ceramide generation …

p62/SQSTM1 binds directly to Atg8/LC3 to facilitate degradation of ubiquitinated protein aggregates by autophagy

S Pankiv, TH Clausen, T Lamark, A Brech… - Journal of biological …, 2007 - ASBMB
Protein degradation by basal constitutive autophagy is important to avoid accumulation of
polyubiquitinated protein aggregates and development of neurodegenerative diseases. The …

Non-canonical autophagy drives alternative ATG8 conjugation to phosphatidylserine

J Durgan, AH Lystad, K Sloan, SR Carlsson, MI Wilson… - Molecular cell, 2021 - cell.com
Autophagy is a fundamental catabolic process that uses a unique post-translational
modification, the conjugation of ATG8 protein to phosphatidylethanolamine (PE). ATG8 …

Atg8: an autophagy-related ubiquitin-like protein family

T Shpilka, H Weidberg, S Pietrokovski, Z Elazar - Genome biology, 2011 - Springer
Autophagy-related (Atg) proteins are eukaryotic factors participating in various stages of the
autophagic process. Thus far 34 Atgs have been identified in yeast, including the key …