Table of Contents

Volume 8, Issue 2

  February 2012

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EDITOR'S CORNER

Do you want to read about a biochemic and genetical analysis of the physiologic role of the autophagical process? No

Daniel J. Klionsky





AUTOPHAGIC FLUX

Highlights from this issue

Andriy Nemchenko





REVIEW

The role of autophagy in endoplasmic reticulum stress-induced pancreatic β cell death

Jia-Jing Yin, Yan-Bo Li, Yang Wang, Guo-Dong liu, Jun Wang, Xiao-Ou Zhu and Shang-Ha Pan





BASIC RESEARCH PAPERS

miR-376b controls starvation and mTOR inhibition-related autophagy by targeting ATG4C and BECN1

Gozde Korkmaz, Carlos le Sage, Kumsal Ayse Tekirdag, Reuven Agami and Devrim Gozuacik


Atg4 recycles inappropriately lipidated Atg8 to promote autophagosome biogenesis

Hitoshi Nakatogawa, Junko Ishii, Eri Asai and Yoshinori Ohsumi


Atg5 and Ambra1 differentially modulate neurogenesis in neural stem cells

Patricia Vázquez, Ana I. Arroba, Francesco Cecconi, Enrique J. de la Rosa, Patricia Boya and Flora De Pablo


Chloroquine sensitizes breast cancer cells to chemotherapy independent of autophagy

Paola Maycotte, Suraj Aryal, Christopher T. Cummings, Jacqueline Thorburn, Michael J. Morgan and Andrew Thorburn


Reconstitution of leucine-mediated autophagy via the mTORC1-Barkor pathway in vitro

Xianghua Yan, Qiming Sun, Jian Ji, Yaqin Zhu, Zhengfei Liu and Qing Zhong


Stimulation of autophagy by rapamycin protects neurons from remote degeneration after acute focal brain damage

Maria Teresa Viscomi, Marcello D’Amelio, Virve Cavallucci, Laura Latini, Elisa Bisicchia, Francesca Nazio, Francesca Fanelli, Mauro Maccarrone, Sandra Moreno, Francesco Cecconi and Marco Molinari


Autophagy-dependent senescence in response to DNA damage and chronic apoptotic stress

Kamini Singh, Shigemi Matsuyama, Judith A. Drazba and Alexandru Almasan


Autophagy can promote but is not required for epithelial cell extrusion in the amnioserosa of the Drosophila embryo

Olga Cormier, Nilufar Mohseni, Iryna Voytyuk and Bruce H. Reed





AUTOPHAGIC PUNCTA

Autophagy prolongs survival after NFκB inhibition in B-cell lymphomas

Thomas G. Sommermann, Hildegard I.D. Mack and Ellen Cahir-McFarland


Direct molecular interactions between Beclin 1 and the canonical NFκB activation pathway

Mireia Niso-Santano, Alfredo Criollo, Shoaib Ahmad Malik, Mickael Michaud, Eugenia Morselli, Guillermo Mariño, Sylvie Lachkar, Lorenzo Galluzzi, Maria Chiara Maiuri and Guido Kroemer


(Pro)renin receptor and autophagy in podocytes

Atsuhiro Ichihara


The amplified cancer gene LAPTM4B promotes tumor growth and tolerance to stress through the induction of autophagy

Yang Li, J. Dirk Iglehart, Andrea L. Richardson and Zhigang Charles Wang


Targeting HMGB1-mediated autophagy as a novel therapeutic strategy for osteosarcoma

Jun Huang, Ke Liu, Yan Yu, Min Xie, Rui Kang, Philip Vernon, Lizhi Cao, Daolin Tang and Jiangdong Ni


Open Access Article

MAP1S enhances autophagy to suppress tumorigenesis

Leyuan Liu, Wallace L. McKeehan, Fen Wang and Rui Xie


Alpha-synuclein’s degradation in vivo: Opening a new (cranial) window on the roles of degradation pathways in Parkinson disease

Darius Ebrahimi-Fakhari, Pamela J. McLean and Vivek K. Unni


Oxidative stress and autophagy: Mediators of synapse growth?

Ryan J.H. West and Sean T. Sweeney


Axonal damage, autophagy and neuronal survival

Natalia Rodríguez-Muela and Patricia Boya


Autophagy defects in Lafora disease: Cause or consequence?

Rajat Puri and Subramaniam Ganesh