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Lysosomal Dysfunction is Linked to Exosomal Secretion By Christina Towers, PhD. Lysosomal Dysfunction and DiseaseLysosomes are highly acidic organelles that are critical for cellular function and indispensable for degradative pathways like autophagy and endocytosis.... Read more. |
E-syt in Autophagosome biogenesis: What is the source of it all? By Christina Towers, PhD. Macroautophagy is a cellular recycling process that requires the formation of double membrane structures to engulf and degrade damaged cytoplasmic material. The pathway involves over 20 co... Read more. |
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Animal Models to Study Autophagy By Christina Towers, PhD What is autophagy?Autophagy is the catabolic process that degrades cytoplasmic material via the lysosome. The process of macroautophagy was originally characterized in yeast, where the... Read more. |
Autophagy Research Update: What a difference a year makes! By Christina Towers, PhD Over the last two decades the field of autophagy has exploded! Innovative techniques, comprehensive analysis and disease-relevant models have yielded basic and clinical discoveries of conseque... Read more. |
ATG9A - early marker autophagosome assembly ATG9A is the only essential integral membrane protein involved in autophagy. ATG9A contains six transmembrane domains and initiates the assembly of autophagosomes. The autophagosome is a double-membrane structure that engulfs and eventually degrade... Read more. |
Beclin 1 - A Key Regulator of Autophagosome Formation The Beclin 1 protein is a central regulator of autophagy in mammalian cells. Autophagy is an essential process used to maintain cellular homeostasis by degrading and recycling cellular components such as damaged or worn out organelles and macromole... Read more. |
Beclin 2, a mammal-specific homolog of Beclin 1 with unique functional similarities and differences Beclin 2 (BECN2) is also called Beclin-1-like protein 1/ BECN1P1 and it was recently identified by He et al 2013 as a mammal-specific homolog of the evolutionarily conserved protein Beclin 1 which is well established for its role in the regulation ... Read more. |
VPS41 - An important regulator of lysosomal trafficking Membrane fusion is an essential step during the trafficking of endosomes and vesicles throughout the cell. Membrane fusion events are facilitated by multisubunit tethering complexes (MTC) including CORVET and HOPS. These complexes interact with Rab... Read more. |
ULK1 - mammalian homologue of the yeast ATG1 kinase Autophagy is an important cellular process involved in degradation and recycling of cellular macromolecules in response to stress or starvation. Autophagy is carried out in four main phases: phagophore nucleation, autophagosome elongation, docking... Read more. |
VPS34 - autophagy initiator and regulator of endosomal trafficking VPS34, vacuolar protein sorting 34, is the only identified Class III phosphoinositide-3 kinase (PI3K) in mammals and is ubiquitously expressed in all eukaryotic cells. VPS34 is a 100 kDa protein responsible for phosphorylating phosphatidylinositol... Read more. |
UVRAG - A regulator of membrane trafficking in autophagy and endocytosis UV resistance-associated gene (UVRAG) is a tumor suppressor that is commonly mutated in colon and breast cancer. While UVRAG was discovered for its ability to complement UV sensitivity in xeroderma pigmentosum cells, its main functions are in auto... Read more. |