Journal
JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE
Volume 129, Issue 5, Pages 881-891Publisher
COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.163758
Keywords
Receptor regulators; TRIMs; Autophagy
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- National Institutes of Health [AI042999, AI111935]
- Manpei Suzuki Diabetes Foundation
- Uehara Memorial Foundation
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Selective autophagy entails cooperation between target recognition and assembly of the autophagic apparatus. Target recognition is conducted by receptors that often recognize tags, such as ubiquitin and galectins, although examples of selective autophagy independent of these tags are emerging. It is less known how receptors cooperate with the upstream autophagic regulators, beyond the well-characterized association of receptors with Atg8 or its homologs, such as LC3B (encoded by MAP1LC3B), on autophagic membranes. The molecular details of the emerging role in autophagy of the family of proteins called TRIMs shed light on the coordination between cargo recognition and the assembly and activation of the principal autophagy regulators. In their autophagy roles, TRIMs act both as receptors and as platforms ('receptor regulators') for the assembly of the core autophagy regulators, such as ULK1 and Beclin 1 in their activated state. As autophagic receptors, TRIMs can directly recognize endogenous or exogenous targets, obviating a need for intermediary autophagic tags, such as ubiquitin and galectins. The receptor and regulatory features embodied within the same entity allow TRIMs to govern cargo degradation in a highly exact process termed 'precision autophagy'.
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