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AUTOPHAGY
卷 16, 期 9, 页码 1651-1667出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/15548627.2019.1703354
关键词
Astrocytes; autophagy; glia; LC3; MTOR; neurons; SQSTM1; starvation
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资金
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke [NS082619]
- University of Pennsylvania Alzheimer's Disease Core Center
- Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (CHOP/UPenn/The Philadelphia Foundation
- McCabe Fund Fellow Award
Macroautophagy/autophagy is a key homeostatic process that targets cytoplasmic components to the lysosome for breakdown and recycling. Autophagy plays critical roles in glia and neurons that affect development, functionality, and viability of the nervous system. The mechanisms that regulate autophagy in glia and neurons, however, are poorly understood. Here, we define the molecular underpinnings of autophagy in primary cortical astrocytes in response to metabolic stress, and perform a comparative study in primary hippocampal neurons. We find that inducing metabolic stress by nutrient deprivation or pharmacological inhibition of MTOR (mechanistic target of rapamycin kinase) robustly activates autophagy in astrocytes. While both paradigms of metabolic stress dampen MTOR signaling, they affect the autophagy pathway differently. Further, we find that starvation-induced autophagic flux is dependent on the buffering system of the starvation solution. Lastly, starvation conditions that strongly activate autophagy in astrocytes have less pronounced effects on autophagy in neurons. Combined, our study reveals the complexity of regulating autophagy in different paradigms of metabolic stress, as well as in different cell types of the brain. Our findings raise important implications for how neurons and glia may collaborate to maintain homeostasis in the brain.
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