Signal transduction regulation of autophagy Book Section


Authors: Wong, P. M.; Jiang, X.
Editor: Wang, H. G.
Article/Chapter Title: Signal transduction regulation of autophagy
Title Series: Current Cancer Research
Abstract: As a major stress-responsive catabolic pathway, autophagy communicates with a variety of signal transduction pathways ranging from proliferative signaling, metabolic pathways, cell death pathways, and multiple cellular stresses. As such, autophagy needs to be able to integrate diverse signaling events and respond to various complex biological conditions in a highly orchestrated manner. Mechanistically, while the molecular basis underlying the function of the core autophagy machinery has been relatively well established, how does autophagy pathway sense diverse upstream signaling pathways? How does autophagy contribute to the eventual biological outcomes of these signaling pathways? Is there any feedback regulation from autophagy to the upstream signaling pathways? And what governs signal transduction within the core autophagy pathway? This chapter discusses the current understanding of these questions. Particularly, an emphasis is placed on the role of the Atg1/ULK1 complex in sensing the upstream nutrient/energy signaling and relaying the upstream signaling to downstream autophagy machinery. © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2013. All rights reserved.
Keywords: signal transduction; phosphorylation; regulation; autophagy; mtor; acetylation; ulk1; ampk; nutrient signaling; autophagic cell death; atg1; ubiquitin-like reaction
Book Title: Autophagy and Cancer
ISBN: 978-1-4614-6560-7
Publisher: Springer  
Publication Place: New York, NY
Date Published: 2013-01-01
Start Page: 63
End Page: 93
Language: English
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-6561-4_4
PROVIDER: scopus
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Notes: Book Chapter: 4 -- Export Date: 2 October 2017 -- Source: Scopus
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