Molecular Research on Autophagy
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 September 2024) | Viewed by 18397
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Interests: autophagy; selective autophagy; secretory autophagy; physiology; pathophysiology; pancreatic diseases
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Dear Colleagues,
Autophagy is a cellular catabolic process that sequesters and delivers cytoplasmic components to the lysosome for degradation. By recycling cytoplasmic constituents, autophagy controls cellular bioenergetics and tissue remodeling. In addition, autophagy allows the selective elimination of misfolded proteins, protein aggregates, damaged organelles, intracellular pathogens, and lipid droplets. This pathway is called selective autophagy and has relevance in the cell response to disease. Independently of the lysosomal degradation, the autophagic machinery can be involved in other processes, such as the unconventional secretion including extracellular vesicles, the mechanism related to vesicle trafficking such as phagocytosis, and the regulation of inflammatory signaling such as the formation and clearance of inflammasome. Although a core group of evolutionarily conserved AuTophaGy-related proteins is involved in autophagosome biogenesis, an increasing number of new autophagy-related proteins are being characterized in certain physiological and pathological situations or in specific selective or secretory autophagic processes. Furthermore, posttranscriptional as well as post translational modification of ATG molecules are emerging regulatory mechanisms in physiological and pathological roles od autophagy.
In this Special Issue of IJMS, the focus will be on molecular research in autophagy. Suitable topics include, but are not limited to molecular processes involved in the multiple roles of autophagy in physiological and pathological situations. Furthermore, the clinical and pharmacological applications of the research in molecular pathways related to autophagy are welcome for this Special Issue of IJMS.
Prof. Dr. Maria Ines Vaccaro
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ATG molecules
- transcriptional and post translational modification
- selective pathways
- secretory pathways
- complexes diseases
- degenerative processes
- inflammatory diseases
- tumorigenesis
- metabolism
- proteostasis
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