Evidence map›Paper›PMID 25026034›Full record

ArticleDevelopmental cell2014

Autophagosome biogenesis in primary neurons follows an ordered and spatially regulated pathway.

Sandra Maday, Erika L F Holzbaur

Open access · bronzeAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Developmental cell, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 246 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
246citing papers in PubMed
15.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

246 citing papers in PubMed, 373 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Dysregulation of autophagosome-mitochondria contacts contributes to autophagy dysfunction and neurodegeneration in tauopathy.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
    Article
  9. Article
  10. Article
  11. Review
  12. Article
  13. Article
  14. SNX-3 confers lysosomal fusion-competence to sustain basal autophagy.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2026
    Article
  15. Review
  16. Review
  17. Review
  18. Review
  19. Review
  20. Autophagy-lysosomal pathway in neurodegeneration.Molecular neurodegeneration advances · 2026
    Review

186 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sandra MadayDepartment of Physiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Erika L F HolzbaurDepartment of Physiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Electronic address: holzbaur@mail.med.upenn.edu.
University of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

Mechanistic analysis of axonal transport defects in motor neuron degenerative disR01NS060698 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI HOLZBAUR, ERIKA L · 2008 to 2025
$3.8M
Mechanistic analysis of axonal transport defects in neurodegenerative diseaseR37NS060698 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI HOLZBAUR, ERIKA L · 2014 to 2020
$2.9M
Mechanisms of autophagosome biogenesis and maturation in primary neuronsK99NS082619 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI MADAY, SANDRA L. · 2013 to 2014
$180k
NINDS NIH HHS K99 NS082619NINDS NIH HHS K99NS082619NINDS NIH HHS NS060698NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS060698NINDS NIH HHS R37 NS060698
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Autophagy is an essential degradative pathway in neurons, yet little is known about mechanisms driving autophagy in highly polarized cells. Here, we use dual-color live-cell imaging to investigate the neuron-specific mechanisms of constitutive autophagosome biogenesis in primary dorsal root ganglion (DRG) and hippocampal cultures. Under basal conditions, autophagosomes are continuously generated in the axon tip. There is an ordered assembly of proteins recruited with stereotypical kinetics onto the developing autophagosome. Plasma- or mitochondrial-derived membranes were not incorporated into nascent autophagosomes in the distal axon. Rather, autophagosomes are generated at double FYVE-containing protein 1 (DFCP1)-positive subdomains of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), distinct from ER exit sites. Biogenesis events are enriched distally; autophagosomes form infrequently in dendrites, the soma, or midaxon, consistent with a compartmentalized pathway for constitutive autophagy in primary neurons. Distal biogenesis may facilitate degradation of damaged mitochondria and long-lived cytoplasmic proteins reaching the axon tip via slow axonal transport.

Indexed as

AutophagyAnimalsAxonsBiological TransportCell MembraneCells, CulturedDendritic CellsEndoplasmic ReticulumHippocampusMembrane ProteinsMiceMice, TransgenicMitochondriaNeuronsPhagosomesMembrane ProteinsZfyve1 protein, mouse

Identifiers

PMID25026034
PMCPMC4109719
OpenAlexW1971898834

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceTDM
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.