Evidence map›Paper›PMID 28933638›Full record

ReviewAutophagy2018

Autophagy pathway: Cellular and molecular mechanisms.

Li Yu, Yang Chen, Sharon A Tooze

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In one paragraph

Review in Autophagy, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 835 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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835citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

835 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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775 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

3 authors.

Li Yua State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Tsinghua University-Peking University Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences , Tsinghua University , Beijing , China.
Yang Chena State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Tsinghua University-Peking University Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences , Tsinghua University , Beijing , China.
Sharon A Toozeb Molecular Cell Biology of Autophagy , The Francis Crick Institute , London , United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-2182-3116

Funding

Cancer Research UK 15153Cancer Research UK FC001187Wellcome Trust FC001187
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Macroautophagy/autophagy is an essential, conserved self-eating process that cells perform to allow degradation of intracellular components, including soluble proteins, aggregated proteins, organelles, macromolecular complexes, and foreign bodies. The process requires formation of a double-membrane structure containing the sequestered cytoplasmic material, the autophagosome, that ultimately fuses with the lysosome. This review will define this process and the cellular pathways required, from the formation of the double membrane to the fusion with lysosomes in molecular terms, and in particular highlight the recent progress in our understanding of this complex process.

Indexed as

AnimalsAutophagosomesAutophagyAutophagy-Related ProteinsEndocytosisHumansLysosomesMembrane FusionSecretory PathwaySNARE ProteinsAutophagy-Related ProteinsSNARE ProteinsATG proteinsautophagic lysosome reformationomegasomephagophoreRAB proteinSNARE

Identifiers

PMID28933638
PMCPMC5902171

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