Autophagy as a Stress-Response and Quality-Control Mechanism: Implications for Cell Injury and Human Disease
- 24 January 2013
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Annual Reviews in Annual review of pathology
- Vol. 8 (1), 105-137
- https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-pathol-020712-163918
Abstract
Autophagy, a vital catabolic process that degrades cytoplasmic components within the lysosome, is an essential cytoprotective response to pathologic stresses that occur during diseases such as cancer, ischemia, and infection. In addition to its role as a stress-response pathway, autophagy plays an essential quality-control function in the cell by promoting basal turnover of long-lived proteins and organelles, as well as by selectively degrading damaged cellular components. This homeostatic function protects against a wide variety of diseases, including neurodegeneration, myopathy, liver disease, and diabetes. This review discusses our current understanding of these two principal functions of autophagy and describes in detail how alterations in autophagy promote human disease.Keywords
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