• Degradation of arouser by endosomal microautophagy is essential for adaptation to starvation in Drosophila 

      Jacomin, Anne-Claire; Gohel, Raksha; Hussain, Zunoon; Varga, Agnes; Maruzs, Tamas; Eddison, Mark; Sica, Margaux; Jain, Ashish; Moffat, Kevin G.; Johansen, Terje; Jenny, Andreas; Juhasz, Gabor; Nezis, Ioannis (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-12-14)
      Hunger drives food-seeking behaviour and controls adaptation of organisms to nutrient availability and energy stores. Lipids constitute an essential source of energy in the cell that can be mobilised during fasting by autophagy. Selective degradation of proteins by autophagy is made possible essentially by the presence of LIR and KFERQ-like motifs. Using in silico screening of Drosophila ...
    • Zonda is a novel early component of the autophagy pathway in Drosophila 

      Melani, Mariana; Valko, Ayelen; Romero, Nuria M; Aguilera, Milton O; Acevedo, Julieta M; Bhujabal, Zambarlal; Perez-Perri, Joel; De La Riva-Carrasco, Rocio V; Katz, Maximiliano J; Sorianello, Eleonora; D'Alessio, Cecilia; Juhasz, Gabor; Johansen, Terje; Colombo, Maria I; Wappner, Pablo (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-09-13)
      Autophagy is an evolutionary conserved process by which eukaryotic cells undergo self-digestion of cytoplasmic components. Here we report that a novel Drosophila immunophilin, which we have named Zonda, is critically required for starvation-induced autophagy. We show that Zonda operates at early stages of the process, specifically for Vps34-mediated phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate (PI3P) deposition. ...