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Autophagy fights disease through cellular self-digestion
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Autophagy, or cellular self-digestion, is a cellular pathway involved in protein and organelle degradation, with an astonishing number of connections to human disease and physiology. For example, autophagic dysfunction is associated with cancer, neurodegeneration, microbial infection and ageing. Paradoxically, although autophagy is primarily a protective process for the cell, it can also play a role in cell death. Understanding autophagy may ultimately allow scientists and clinicians to harness this process for the purpose of improving human health.
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“Proteostasis involves mechanisms for the stabilization of correctly folded proteins, most prominently the heat-shock family of proteins, and mechanisms for the degradation of proteins by the proteasome or the lysosome (Hartl et al., 2011; Koga et al., 2011; Mizushima et al., 2008).”
From The Hallmarks of Aging (2013) · cites this paper as Mizushima et al., 2008
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“The neuroprotective function of macroautophagy has become an interesting focus in neurodegenerative disease, exemplified in Huntington's disease (Menzies et al., 2006;Mizushima et al., 2008), as well as in animal models (Hara et al., 2006;Komatsu et al., 2006).”
From Depletion of 26S Proteasomes in Mouse Brain Neurons Causes Neurodegeneration and Lewy-Like Inclusions Resembling Human Pale Bodies (2008) · cites this paper as Mizushima et al., 2008
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“Three different forms of autophagy have been described in mammalian cells: macroautophagy, microautophagy and chaperone-mediated autophagy (Fig. 3) (Cuervo, 2009; He and Klionsky, 2009; Mizushima et al., 2008).”
From Protein Homeostasis and Aging: the importance of exquisite quality control (2011) · cites this paper as Mizushima et al., 2008
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“macro-autophagy (hereafter referred to as autophagy)—a tightly regulated major lysosomal degradation pathway (27–30)—has been implicated in establishing the SASP through the target of rapamycin (TOR) autophagy spatial coupling compartment (TASCC).”
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Self-citationRetractedAutophagy in the Pathogenesis of Disease
Levine, B., & Kroemer, G. (2008) · Cell · doi:10.1016/j.cell.2007.12.018 · Cited by 7,069
Self-citationPankiv, S., Clausen, T. H., Lamark, T., Brech, A., Bruun, J.-A., Outzen, H., Øvervatn, A., Bjørkøy, G., & Johansen, T. (2007) · Journal of Biological Chemistry · doi:10.1074/jbc.m702824200 · Cited by 4,578
Suppression of basal autophagy in neural cells causes neurodegenerative disease in mice
Hara, T., Nakamura, K., Matsui, M., Yamamoto, A., Nakahara, Y., Suzuki-Migishima, R., Yokoyama, M., Mishima, K., Saito, I., Okano, H., et al. (2006) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature04724 · Cited by 3,882
Self-citationSelf-eating and self-killing: crosstalk between autophagy and apoptosis
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Bcl-2 Antiapoptotic Proteins Inhibit Beclin 1-Dependent Autophagy
Pattingre, S., Tassa, A., Qu, X., Garuti, R., Liang, X. H., Mizushima, N., Packer, M., Schneider, M. D., & Levine, B. (2005) · Cell · doi:10.1016/j.cell.2005.07.002 · Cited by 3,536
Self-citationLoss of autophagy in the central nervous system causes neurodegeneration in mice
Komatsu, M., Waguri, S., Chiba, T., Murata, S., Iwata, J.-I., Tanida, I., Ueno, T., Koike, M., Uchiyama, Y., Kominami, E., et al. (2006) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature04723 · Cited by 3,500
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The role of autophagy during the early neonatal starvation period
Kuma, A., Hatano, M., Matsui, M., Yamamoto, A., Nakaya, H., Yoshimori, T., Ohsumi, Y., Tokuhisa, T., & Mizushima, N. (2004) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature03029 · Cited by 2,865
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Self-citationAutophagy and Viruses: Adversaries or Allies?
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Self-citationAutophagy regulates lipid metabolism
Singh, R., Kaushik, S., Wang, Y., Xiang, Y., Novak, I., Komatsu, M., Tanaka, K., Cuervo, A. M., & Czaja, M. J. (2009) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature07976 · Cited by 3,975
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Metadata
- Authors
- Mizushima, N., Levine, B., Cuervo, A. M., & Klionsky, D. J.
- Affiliations
- Tokyo Medical and Dental University (JP)
- The University of Texas at Dallas (US)
- University of Michigan (US)
- Corresponding author
- Klionsky, Daniel J.
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2008-02
- Volume
- 451
- Issue
- 7182
- Pages
- 1069-1075
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- PMC
- PMC2670399
- OpenAlex
- W1994823455
- Cited by
- 6,452
- References
- 60
- Citations by year
- 2026: 126 · 2025: 233 · 2024: 302 · 2023: 305 · 2022: 361 · 2021: 381 · 2020: 412 · 2019: 392 · 2018: 388 · 2017: 434 · 2016: 439 · 2015: 430 · 2014: 456 · 2013: 400 · 2012: 378
- FWCI
- 35.92
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Deep Blue (University of Michigan) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- American Cancer Society
- Ellison Medical Foundation
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
- Toray Science Foundation
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute on Aging (R03AG019834, R01AG021904, R21AG025355)
- National Cancer Institute
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cell Biology › Autophagy in Disease and Therapy
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Physiology › Calcium signaling and nucleotide metabolism
- Keywords
- autophagy, protein degradation, organelle degradation, cytoprotection, cell death, cancer, neurodegeneration, microbial infection, aging
- MeSH terms
- Aging, Animals, Autophagy, Cell Survival, Humans, Immunity, Innate, Neoplasms, Cell Death, Neurodegenerative Diseases
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