- Lactylation-mediated activation of HSPA5 upregulates VGLL3 expression to inhibit mitophagy-dependent ferroptosis following intracerebral hemorrhage. [Journal Article]Autophagy. 2026 Sep 28; :1-24. [Online ahead of print]A
- Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is a devastating neurological disorder characterized by extensive neuronal death, in which ferroptosis has emerged as a central pathological mechanism. Yet, the role of mitophagy in regulating ferroptosis during ICH remains elusive. Herein, we identified a lactylation-mediated HSPA5 (heat shock protein family A (Hsp70) member 5)-VGLL3 (vestigial like family member 3…
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- RABC1 regulates ER-phagy to maintain ER homeostasis in plants. [Journal Article]Autophagy. 2026 Oct 04; :1-3. [Online ahead of print]A
- Endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-phagy is an important ER quality-control pathway that selectively removes misfolded or unfolded proteins and damaged ER membranes through autophagic degradation in the vacuole. Recent studies have identified small guanosine triphosphatases (GTPases) as important regulators of the autophagy pathway. However, how they couple stress signals to ER-phagy remains poorly under…
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- It's apples and oranges (or chalk and cheese, depending on where you live): RPM versus RCF. [Editorial]Autophagy. 2026 Oct; 22(10):2521.A
- At Autophagy we request that authors express centrifugal values as relative centrifugal force (RCF) or g-force as opposed to revolutions per minute (RPM). This is not an arbitrary decision but to understand the reason we need to provide a brief explanation of the difference between these two terms and, yes, there is a difference. Hence, it is annoying when during the editing process we request th…
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- Methyl-HLH-30/TFEB orchestrates holistic intestinal recuperation against bacterial pore-forming toxin intoxication via TTC38 in metazoans. [Journal Article]
- Effector-triggered immunity (ETI) safeguards intestinal epithelial cells (IECs) by surveilling bacterial virulence effectors or the damage they cause, such as pore-forming toxins (PFTs) that breach plasma membrane integrity (PMI). However, how metazoan ETI regulators guard IEC homeostasis compromised by PFT in vivo remains elusive. Moreover, while the molecular architectures of ETI are well-defin…
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- Spatial control of mitochondrial ubiquitination by the AMBRA1-RMC1-HUWE1 axis. [Journal Article]Autophagy. 2026 Sep 20; :1-3. [Online ahead of print]A
- Mitochondrial ubiquitination is a central component of mitochondrial quality control. The PINK1 (PTEN induced kinase 1)-PRKN (parkin RBR E3 ubiquitin protein ligase) pathway established how loss of mitochondrial membrane potential can trigger a phospho-ubiquitin feed-forward cascade on the outer mitochondrial membrane (OMM). It remains less clear how mitochondrial ubiquitination is achieved when …
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- Marked for destruction? When S-nitrosylation writes protein fate through metabolic rewiring. [Journal Article]Autophagy. 2026 Sep 20; :1-3. [Online ahead of print]A
- Metabolism and autophagy are closely interconnected, but whether metabolic alterations can chemically modify proteins and influence their selective autophagic degradation remains poorly understood. Our recent findings show that increased S-nitrosylation resulting from the loss of the denitrosylase AKR1A1/SCoR impairs glycolysis and promotes methylglyoxal accumulation, leading to carbonyl modifica…
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- CD81 drives immune evasion in radioresistant glioblastoma by blocking selective autophagic degradation of CD274/PD-L1. [Journal Article]Autophagy. 2026 Sep 22; :1-21. [Online ahead of print]A
- Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most aggressive primary brain tumor, for which radiotherapy constitutes the key component of standard comprehensive treatment; however, tumor relapse could inevitably arise from intrinsically radioresistant GBM subclones. Radiotherapy exerts biphasic regulatory effects on the tumor immune microenvironment (TIME), with transient activation followed by sustained…
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- Targeting USP7 lactylation suppresses NSCLC tumorigenesis by promoting PINK1 ubiquitination and degradation. [Journal Article]Autophagy. 2026 Sep 09; :1-19. [Online ahead of print]A
- Lactylation is an emerging post-translational modification that is well established for its involvement in epigenetic regulation. However, its functional significance and regulatory mechanisms in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) remain poorly understood. In this study, integrated proteomic and lactylomic analyses of clinical NSCLC specimens and matched adjacent normal tissues showed that USP7 (…
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- Spatiotemporal control of Atg9 vesicle fusion in autophagosome formation. [Journal Article]Autophagy. 2026 Sep 16; :1-2. [Online ahead of print]A
- Atg9 vesicles serve as membrane seeds for autophagosome formation. These vesicles are derived from the Golgi/endosomes and localized to the pre-autophagosomal structure or phagophore assembly site (PAS) upon autophagy induction. How these vesicles are maintained as discrete membrane carriers while diffusing through the cytoplasm and subsequently become competent for downstream events at the PAS h…
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- α-ketoglutarate ameliorates spinal motor neuron ferroptosis after sacral plexus transection via enhancing PINK1 O‑GlcNAcylation and mitophagy. [Journal Article]Autophagy. 2026 Sep 15; :1-17. [Online ahead of print]A
- Sacral plexus transection (SPT), mostly caused by high‑energy trauma, induces secondary death of spinal motor neurons in the lumbosacral segments and contributes to poor clinical outcomes after nerve repair. This study aimed to investigate the protective effect of α‑ketoglutarate (AKG) against ferroptosis in spinal motor neurons following SPT and the underlying molecular mechanism. Our results sh…
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- Augmenting intracellular amino acid pools suppresses the phenotypes of autophagy-deficient cells. [Journal Article]Autophagy. 2026 Sep 07; :1-17. [Online ahead of print]A
- TORC1 is a central regulator of cell growth whose inactivation under conditions of nutrient deprivation triggers adaptive responses, including macroautophagy/autophagy, amino acid uptake, and sexual differentiation. Autophagy-deficient fission yeast cells display mating defects and are unable to recover from amino acid starvation, even when external amino acids are available. Here, we investigate…
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- RAB1 mediates OPTN-dependent mitophagy via ATG9A recruitment. [Journal Article]Autophagy. 2026 Sep 15; :1-18. [Online ahead of print]A
- Damaged mitochondria are selectively eliminated through mitophagy, a critical quality control process. A kinase PINK1 and an E3 ubiquitin ligase PRKN/Parkin, both of which are mutated in familial Parkinson disease, amplify ubiquitin signals on the damaged mitochondria. The autophagy receptor OPTN plays a pivotal role in mitophagy by bridging ubiquitinated mitochondria with autophagy components. A…
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- AKAP11 links autophagy to cognitive impairment in psychiatric diseases. [Journal Article]Autophagy. 2026 Sep 01; :1-3. [Online ahead of print]A
- Schizophrenia (SCZ) and bipolar disorder (BD) share genetic risk factors and cognitive impairments, yet the underlying mechanisms remain incompletely understood. Loss-of-function variants in AKAP11 (A-kinase anchoring protein 11) have recently emerged as major risk factors for both disorders. Our recent study demonstrates that AKAP11 deficiency in the mouse hippocampus causes cognitive deficits a…
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- Autophagic degradation of RAB8A promotes ferroptosis through dysregulation of TFRC-mediated iron uptake. [Journal Article]Autophagy. 2026 Sep 16; :1-17. [Online ahead of print]A
- Ferroptosis is an iron-dependent form of regulated cell death driven by lipid peroxidation; however, how selective autophagy regulates ferroptotic sensitivity remains incompletely understood. Here, we identify RAB8A as a selective autophagic substrate and negative regulator of ferroptosis. Quantitative proteomic analyses reveal that ferroptotic stress induces ATG5- and ATG7-dependent degradation …
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