The lysosome as an imperative regulator of autophagy and cell death

KK Mahapatra, SR Mishra, BP Behera, S Patil… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2021 - Springer
Lysosomes are single membrane-bound organelles containing acid hydrolases responsible
for the degradation of cellular cargo and maintenance of cellular homeostasis. Lysosomes …

Amino acid transporters revisited: New views in health and disease

P Kandasamy, G Gyimesi, Y Kanai… - Trends in biochemical …, 2018 - cell.com
Amino acid transporters (AATs) are membrane-bound transport proteins that mediate
transfer of amino acids into and out of cells or cellular organelles. AATs have diverse …

Autophagic lysosome reformation in health and disease

R Nanayakkara, R Gurung, SJ Rodgers, MJ Eramo… - Autophagy, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Lysosomes are the primary degradative compartment within cells and there have been
significant advances over the past decade toward understanding how lysosome …

Amino acid transporters in cancer and their relevance to “glutamine addiction”: novel targets for the design of a new class of anticancer drugs

YD Bhutia, E Babu, S Ramachandran, V Ganapathy - Cancer research, 2015 - AACR
Tumor cells have an increased demand for amino acids because of their rapid proliferation
rate. In addition to their need in protein synthesis, several amino acids have other roles in …

Autophagy pathway: Cellular and molecular mechanisms

L Yu, Y Chen, SA Tooze - Autophagy, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Macroautophagy/autophagy is an essential, conserved self-eating process that cells perform
to allow degradation of intracellular components, including soluble proteins, aggregated …

Lysosomal size matters

MEG de Araujo, G Liebscher, MW Hess, LA Huber - Traffic, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Lysosomes are key cellular catabolic centers that also perform fundamental metabolic,
signaling and quality control functions. Lysosomes are not static and they respond …

The L-type amino acid transporter LAT1—An emerging target in cancer

P Häfliger, RP Charles - International journal of molecular sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Chronic proliferation is a major hallmark of tumor cells. Rapidly proliferating cancer cells are
highly dependent on nutrients in order to duplicate their cell mass during each cell division …

Biosynthesis of milk fat, protein, and lactose: roles of transcriptional and posttranscriptional regulation

JS Osorio, J Lohakare, M Bionaz - Physiological genomics, 2016 - journals.physiology.org
The demand for high-quality milk is increasing worldwide. The efficiency of milk synthesis
can be improved by taking advantage of the accumulated knowledge of the transcriptional …

Comorbidity-associated glutamine deficiency is a predisposition to severe COVID-19

T Matsuyama, SK Yoshinaga, K Shibue… - Cell Death & …, 2021 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 vaccinations have greatly reduced COVID-19 cases, but we must continue to
develop our understanding of the nature of the disease and its effects on human immunity …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting ATF4-dependent pro-survival autophagy to synergize glutaminolysis inhibition

S Han, L Zhu, Y Zhu, Y Meng, J Li, P Song… - Theranostics, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
As glutamine plays a central role in cancer metabolism, inhibition of glutaminolysis has
become an ideal anticancer therapeutic target. However, glutaminolysis inhibition leads to …