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AUTOPHAGY
Volume 9, Issue 1, Pages 112-114Publisher
LANDES BIOSCIENCE
DOI: 10.4161/auto.22443
Keywords
mitochondria; autophagy; intracellular traffic; microtubules; SNCA
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Neurons are exquisitely dependent on quality control systems to maintain a healthy intracellular environment. A permanent assessment of protein and organelle quality allows a coordinated action between repair and clearance of damage proteins and dysfunctional organelles. Impairments in the intracellular clearance mechanisms in long-lived postmitotic cells, like neurons, result in the progressive accumulation of damaged organelles and aggregates of aberrant proteins. Using cells bearing Parkinson disease (PD) patients' mitochondria, we demonstrated that aberrant accumulation of autophagosomes in PD, commonly interpreted as an abnormal induction of autophagy, is instead due to defective autophagic clearance. This defect is a consequence of alterations in the microtubule network driven by mitochondrial dysfunction that hinder mitochondria and autophagosome trafficking. We uncover mitochondria and microtubule-directed traffic as main players in the regulation of autophagy in PD.
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