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 …

Mechanisms governing autophagosome biogenesis

H Nakatogawa - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2020 - nature.com
Autophagosomes are double-membrane vesicles newly formed during autophagy to engulf
a wide range of intracellular material and transport this autophagic cargo to lysosomes (or …

The ATG conjugation systems in autophagy

N Mizushima - Current opinion in cell biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Autophagosome formation and maturation involve the two ubiquitin-like systems: The ATG8
and ATG12 systems. ATG8 (LC3s and gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor–associated …

Roles of autophagy in oxidative stress

HR Yun, YH Jo, J Kim, Y Shin, SS Kim… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Autophagy is a catabolic process for unnecessary or dysfunctional cytoplasmic contents by
lysosomal degradation pathways. Autophagy is implicated in various biological processes …

Autophagy: The spotlight for cellular stress responses

P Ravanan, IF Srikumar, P Talwar - Life sciences, 2017 - Elsevier
Autophagy is an essential cellular mechanism which plays “housekeeping” role in normal
physiological processes including removing of long lived, aggregated and misfolded …

m6A mRNA methylation controls autophagy and adipogenesis by targeting Atg5 and Atg7

X Wang, R Wu, Y Liu, Y Zhao, Z Bi, Y Yao, Q Liu… - Autophagy, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT N 6-methyladenosine (m6A), the most abundant internal modification on
mRNAs in eukaryotes, play roles in adipogenesis. However, the underlying mechanism …

LC3/GABARAP family proteins: autophagy‐(un) related functions

MBE Schaaf, TG Keulers, MA Vooijs… - The FASEB …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
From yeast to mammals, autophagy is an important mechanism for sustaining cellular
homeostasis through facilitating the degradation and recycling of aged and cytotoxic …

Ubiquitin-like protein conjugation: structures, chemistry, and mechanism

L Cappadocia, CD Lima - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Ubiquitin-like proteins (Ubl's) are conjugated to target proteins or lipids to regulate their
activity, stability, subcellular localization, or macromolecular interactions. Similar to ubiquitin …

ER stress: Autophagy induction, inhibition and selection

HO Rashid, RK Yadav, HR Kim, HJ Chae - Autophagy, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
An accumulation of unfolded or misfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) leads
to stress conditions. To mitigate such circumstances, stressed cells activate a homeostatic …

The interplay of autophagy and oxidative stress in the pathogenesis and therapy of retinal degenerative diseases

KC Chang, PF Liu, CH Chang, YC Lin, YJ Chen… - Cell & bioscience, 2022 - Springer
Oxidative stress is mainly caused by intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) production,
which is highly associated with normal physiological homeostasis and the pathogenesis of …