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Plasma membrane integrity in health and disease: significance and therapeutic potential
Cell Discovery, 2021 Maintenance of plasma membrane integrity is essential for normal cell viability and function. Thus, robust membrane repair mechanisms have evolved to counteract the eminent threat of a torn plasma membrane.
Catarina Dias, Jesper Nylandsted
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Autophagy and rheumatoid arthritis: Current knowledges and future perspectives [PDF]
, 2018 Autophagy is a degradation mechanism by which cells recycle cytoplasmic components to generate energy. By influencing lymphocyte development, survival, and proliferation, autophagy regulates the immune responses against self and non-self antigens ...
Alessandri, Cristiano +10 more
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Autophagy-monitoring and autophagy-deficient mice [PDF]
Autophagy, 2017 Discovery of yeast autophagy-related (ATG) genes and subsequent identification of their homologs in other organisms have enabled researchers to investigate physiological functions of macroautophagy/autophagy using genetic techniques. Specific identification of autophagy-related structures is important to evaluate autophagic activity, and specific ...
Akiko Kuma +2 more
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Autophagy is activated and involved in cell death with participation of cathepsins during stress-induced microspore embryogenesis in barley [PDF]
, 2018 Microspores are reprogrammed towards embryogenesis by stress. Many microspores die after this stress, limiting the efficiency of microspore embryogenesis. Autophagy is a degradation pathway that plays critical roles in stress response and cell death.
Berenguer, Eduardo +4 more
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Reviews in Medical Virology, 2009 AbstractAutophagy is an evolutionarily conserved intracellular process by which bulk cytoplasm is enveloped inside a double‐membraned vesicle and shuttled to lysosomes for degradation. Within the last 15 years, the genes necessary for the execution of autophagy have been identified and the number of tools for studying this process has grown.
Beth Levine, Sagar B. Kudchodkar
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The Role of Autophagy in Pancreatic Cancer—Recent Advances
Biology, 2019 Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remains one of the deadliest cancers with a 5-year survival rate of only 9%, despite ongoing efforts to improve treatment.
Maria New, Sharon Tooze
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Beyond self-eating: The control of nonautophagic functions and signaling pathways by autophagy-related proteins. [PDF]
, 2017 The identification of conserved autophagy-related proteins (ATGs) that mediate bulk degradation of cytosolic material laid the foundation for breakthroughs linking autophagy to a litany of physiological processes and disease conditions.
Cadwell, Ken, Debnath, Jayanta
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Autophagy, selective autophagy, and necroptosis in COPD
International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, 2018 COPD is characterized by persistent respiratory symptoms and airflow limitation, caused by a mixture of small airway disease and pulmonary emphysema. Programmed cell death has drawn the attention of COPD researchers because emphysema is thought to result from epithelial cell death caused by smoking.
Kenji Mizumura +3 more
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Autophagy and tumorigenesis [PDF]
FEBS Letters, 2009 Autophagy, or cellular self‐digestion, is activated in cancer cells in response to multiple stresses and has been demonstrated to promote tumor cell survival and drug resistance. Nonetheless, genetic evidence supports that autophagy functions as a tumor suppressor mechanism.
Nan Chen, Jayanta Debnath
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Nature Communications, 2019 Autophagy adaptors and receptors contain LC3-interacting region (LIR) motifs that bind selectively to the LIR docking site of GABARAP and other members of the ATG8 family. Here the authors show that in addition to the LIR motif also the region C-terminal
Martina Wirth +8 more
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