Huntingtin facilitates selective autophagy

Amir Gelman, Slobodkin, Moran Rawet Slobodkin, Zvulun Elazar*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Selective autophagy is essential for maintaining cellular homeostasis under different growth conditions. Huntingtin, mutated versions of which have been implicated in Huntington disease, is now shown to act as a scaffold protein that couples the induction of autophagy and the selective recruitment of cargo into autophagosomes.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)214-215
Number of pages2
JournalNature Cell Biology
Volume17
Issue number3
Early online date27 Feb 2015
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2015

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Cell Biology

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