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Autophagy Requirements for Eye Lens Differentiation and Transparency

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CELLS
卷 12, 期 3, 页码 -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/cells12030475

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autophagy; lens; differentiation; cataract

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Recent studies have shown that autophagy plays a crucial role in achieving the mature structure, homeostasis, and transparency of the lens. Various experiments using different model systems have found autophagy structures in lens cells, indicating its importance in differentiation. It has also been observed that autophagy is required for lens homeostasis and transparency, as mutations in autophagy proteins can lead to cataract formation.
Recent evidence points to autophagy as an essential cellular requirement for achieving the mature structure, homeostasis, and transparency of the lens. Collective evidence from multiple laboratories using chick, mouse, primate, and human model systems provides evidence that classic autophagy structures, ranging from double-membrane autophagosomes to single-membrane autolysosomes, are found throughout the lens in both undifferentiated lens epithelial cells and maturing lens fiber cells. Recently, key autophagy signaling pathways have been identified to initiate critical steps in the lens differentiation program, including the elimination of organelles to form the core lens organelle-free zone. Other recent studies using ex vivo lens culture demonstrate that the low oxygen environment of the lens drives HIF1a-induced autophagy via upregulation of essential mitophagy components to direct the specific elimination of the mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum, and Golgi apparatus during lens fiber cell differentiation. Pioneering studies on the structural requirements for the elimination of nuclei during lens differentiation reveal the presence of an entirely novel structure associated with degrading lens nuclei termed the nuclear excisosome. Considerable evidence also indicates that autophagy is a requirement for lens homeostasis, differentiation, and transparency, since the mutation of key autophagy proteins results in human cataract formation.

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