Therapeutic Implications of Autophagy Inducers in Immunological Disorders, Infection, and Cancer

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Autophagy is an essential catabolic program that forms part of the stress response and enables cells to break down their own intracellular components within lysosomes for recycling. Accumulating evidence suggests that autophagy plays vital roles in determining pathological outcomes of immune responses and tumorigenesis. Autophagy regulates innate and adaptive immunity affecting the pathologies of infectious, inflammatory, and autoimmune diseases. In cancer, autophagy appears to play distinct roles depending on the context of the malignancy by either promoting or suppressing key determinants of cancer cell survival. This review covers recent developments in the understanding of autophagy and discusses potential therapeutic interventions that may alter the outcomes of certain diseases.

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Loss of the autophagy protein Atg16L1 enhances endotoxin-induced IL-1beta production.

Tatsuya Saitoh, Naonobu Fujita, Myoung Ho Jang … (2008)

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Ubiquitination is the hallmark of protein degradation by the 26S proteasome. However, the proteasome is limited in its capacity to degrade oligomeric and aggregated proteins. Removal of harmful protein aggregates is mediated by autophagy, a mechanism by which the cell sequesters cytosolic cargo and delivers it for degradation by the lysosome. Identification of autophagy receptors, such as p62/SQSTM1 and NBR1, which simultaneously bind both ubiquitin and autophagy-specific ubiquitin-like modifiers, LC3/GABARAP, has provided a molecular link between ubiquitination and autophagy. This review explores the hypothesis that ubiquitin represents a selective degradation signal suitable for targeting various types of cargo, ranging from protein aggregates to membrane-bound organelles and microbes.

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Journal ID (nlm-ta): Int J Mol Sci

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Int J Mol Sci

Journal ID (publisher-id): ijms

Title: International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Publisher: MDPI

ISSN (Electronic): 1422-0067

Publication date (Electronic): 12 September 2017

Publication date Collection: September 2017

Volume: 18

Issue: 9

Electronic Location Identifier: 1959

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[1 ]Division of Bioengineering, Incheon National University, Incheon 22012, Korea; sbyun@ 123456inu.ac.kr

[2 ]Traditional Alcoholic Beverage Research Team, Korea Food Research Institute, Seongnam 13539, Korea; ejlee@ 123456kfri.re.kr

[3 ]Advanced Institutes of Convergence Technology, Seoul National University, Suwon 16495, Korea

[4 ]Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea

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[* ]Correspondence: kiwon@ 123456snu.ac.kr ; Tel.: +82-2-880-4661

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Publisher ID: ijms-18-01959

DOI: 10.3390/ijms18091959

PMC ID: 5618608

PubMed ID: 28895911

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Therapeutic Implications of Autophagy Inducers in Immunological Disorders, Infection, and Cancer

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Loss of the autophagy protein Atg16L1 enhances endotoxin-induced IL-1beta production.

Beclin 1, an autophagy gene essential for early embryonic development, is a haploinsufficient tumor suppressor.

A role for ubiquitin in selective autophagy.

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