ArticleAutophagy2016
Evidence for the involvement of lipid rafts localized at the ER-mitochondria associated membranes in autophagosome formation.
Article in Autophagy, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 103 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled 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.
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.
Who cites it
103 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 162 citations in OpenAlex.
- Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)Autophagy · 2021Guideline
- Lysosomes in Ferroptosis: Regulatory Mechanisms and Molecular Targets.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Mitochondria-Associated Endoplasmic Reticulum Membranes in Cancer: Hubs for Tumor Progression and Therapeutic Vulnerabilities.Cell biology international · 2026Review
- Mitochondria-associated endoplasmic reticulum membrane (MAM): roles in innate immunity dysregulation.Cell communication and signaling : CCS · 2026Review
- Gangliosides in molecular interactions and cell regulation.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2026Review
- α2-3-sialylated glycosphingolipids in neuroinflammation, immunity, and programmed cell death: mechanistic evidence and context-dependent regulation: a comprehensive review.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- Mitochondria-Associated Membrane Dysfunction in Neurodegeneration and Its Effects on Lipid Metabolism, Calcium Signaling, and Cell Fate.Membranes · 2025Review
- Review
- Neuroglobin regulates autophagy through mTORC1/RAPTOR/ULK-1 pathway in human neuroblastoma cells.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Droplet-supported liquid-liquid lateral phase separation as a step to floating protein heterostructures.Nature communications · 2025Article
- The fundamental role of mitochondria-endoplasmic reticulum contacts in ageing and declining healthspan.Open biology · 2025Review
- Endoplasmic reticulum-mitochondria crosstalk: new mechanisms in the development of atherosclerosis.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Review
- Functional omics of ORP7 in primary endothelial cells.BMC biology · 2024Article
- Glycosphingolipids in Cardiovascular Disease: Insights from Molecular Mechanisms and Heart Failure Models.Biomolecules · 2024Review
- MAMs and Mitochondrial Quality Control: Overview and Their Role in Alzheimer's Disease.Neurochemical research · 2024Review
- Flotillin-mediated stabilization of unfolded proteins in bacterial membrane microdomains.Nature communications · 2024Article
- A-Syn(ful) MAM: A Fresh Perspective on a Converging Domain in Parkinson's Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Partitioning into ER membrane microdomains impacts autophagic protein turnover during cellular aging.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Autophagy Promotes Enrichment of Raft Components within Extracellular Vesicles Secreted by Human 2FTGH Cells.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- The molecular mechanism of on-demand sterol biosynthesis at organelle contact sites.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
43 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Mitochondria-associated membranes (MAMs) are subdomains of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) that interact with mitochondria. This membrane scrambling between ER and mitochondria appears to play a critical role in the earliest steps of autophagy. Recently, lipid microdomains, i.e. lipid rafts, have been identified as further actors of the autophagic process. In the present work, a series of biochemical and molecular analyses has been carried out in human fibroblasts with the specific aim of characterizing lipid rafts in MAMs and to decipher their possible implication in the autophagosome formation. In fact, the presence of lipid microdomains in MAMs has been detected and, in these structures, a molecular interaction of the ganglioside GD3, a paradigmatic "brick" of lipid rafts, with core-initiator proteins of autophagy, such as AMBRA1 and WIPI1, was revealed. This association seems thus to take place in the early phases of autophagic process in which MAMs have been hypothesized to play a key role. The functional activity of GD3 was suggested by the experiments carried out by knocking down ST8SIA1 gene expression, i.e., the synthase that leads to the ganglioside formation. This experimental condition results in fact in the impairment of the ER-mitochondria crosstalk and the subsequent hindering of autophagosome nucleation. We thus hypothesize that MAM raft-like microdomains could be pivotal in the initial organelle scrambling activity that finally leads to the formation of autophagosome.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
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.