1. Comprehensive analysis of non-selective and selective autophagy in yeast atg mutants and characterization of autophagic activity in the absence of the Atg8 conjugation system.
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Ginevskaia T, Innokentev A, Furukawa K, Fukuda T, Hayatsu M, Yamashita SI, Inoue K, Shibata S, and Kanki T
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- Endoplasmic Reticulum metabolism, Vacuoles metabolism, Mitophagy, Saccharomyces cerevisiae genetics, Saccharomyces cerevisiae metabolism, Autophagy, Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins metabolism, Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins genetics, Autophagy-Related Protein 8 Family metabolism, Autophagy-Related Protein 8 Family genetics, Mutation, Autophagy-Related Proteins metabolism, Autophagy-Related Proteins genetics
- Abstract
Most autophagy-related genes, or ATG genes, have been identified through studies using budding yeast. Although the functions of the ATG genes are well understood, the contributions of individual genes to non-selective and various types of selective autophagy remain to be fully elucidated. In this study, we quantified the activity of non-selective autophagy, the cytoplasm-to-vacuole targeting (Cvt) pathway, mitophagy, endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-phagy and pexophagy in all Saccharomyces cerevisiae atg mutants. Among the mutants of the core autophagy genes considered essential for autophagy, the atg13 mutant and mutants of the genes involved in the two ubiquitin-like conjugation systems retained residual autophagic functionality. In particular, mutants of the Atg8 ubiquitin-like conjugation system (the Atg8 system) exhibited substantial levels of non-selective autophagy, the Cvt pathway and pexophagy, although mitophagy and ER-phagy were undetectable. Atg8-system mutants also displayed intravacuolar vesicles resembling autophagic bodies, albeit at significantly reduced size and frequency. Thus, our data suggest that membranous sequestration and vacuolar delivery of autophagic cargo can occur in the absence of the Atg8 system. Alongside these findings, the comprehensive analysis conducted here provides valuable datasets for future autophagy research., (© The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Japanese Biochemical Society. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.)
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- 2024
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