• LC3B is a cofactor for LMX1B-mediated transcription of autophagy genes in dopaminergic neurons 

      Kournoutis, Athanasios; Johansen, Terje (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2023-04-10)
      It is becoming increasingly clear that the Atg8 family of autophagy proteins have roles not only in the cytoplasm, but also in the cell nucleus. In this issue, Jimenez-Moreno et al. (2023. J. Cell Biol. <a href=https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201910133>https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201910133</a>) report that nuclear LC3B binds to the LIM homeodomain transcription factor LMX1B and acts as a cofactor for ...
    • NBR1: The archetypal selective autophagy receptor 

      Rasmussen, Nikoline Lander; Kournoutis, Athanasios; Lamark, Trond; Johansen, Terje (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-10-18)
      NBR1 was discovered as an autophagy receptor not long after the first described vertebrate autophagy receptor p62/SQSTM1. Since then, p62 has currently been mentioned in >10,000 papers on PubMed, while NBR1 is mentioned in <350 papers. Nonetheless, evolutionary analysis reveals that NBR1, and likely also selective autophagy, was present already in the last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA), while ...