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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-14164-4
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- National Institutes of Health [AG021904, AG031782, AG038072, DK098408, NS100717]
- SchneiderLesser Foundation Award
- TCI Young Scientist Cancer Research Award JJR Fund [P30-CA196521]
- NIH/NIA [AG038072 PF]
- NIH/NIDDK [DK041296 PF, DK041296]
- JPB Foundation
- Rainwaters Foundation
- [K22CA196750]
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Autophagy malfunctioning occurs in multiple human disorders, making attractive the idea of chemically modulating it with therapeutic purposes. However, for many types of autophagy, a clear understanding of tissue-specific differences in their activity and regulation is missing because of lack of methods to monitor these processes in vivo. Chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA) is a selective type of autophagy that until now has only been studied in vitro and not in the tissue context at single cell resolution. Here, we develop a transgenic reporter mouse that allows dynamic measurement of CMA activity in vivo using image-based procedures. We identify previously unknown spatial and temporal differences in CMA activity in multiple organs and in response to stress. We illustrate the versatility of this model for monitoring CMA in live animals, organotypic cultures and cell cultures from these mice, and provide practical examples of multiorgan response to drugs that modulate CMA. Chaperone mediated autophagy (CMA) is selective but its activity in different tissue types has been unclear due to a lack of tools. Here, the authors generate transgenic mice expressing a CMA reporter that provides spatial and temporal in vivo data, uncovering differences in CMA in distinct tissues.
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