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ArticleAutophagy2018

Contractile activity attenuates autophagy suppression and reverses mitochondrial defects in skeletal muscle cells.

Alexa Parousis, Heather N Carter, Claudia Tran, Avigail T Erlich, Zahra S Mesbah Moosavi, Marion Pauly, David A Hood

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Article in Autophagy, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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28citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.5field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 52 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Alexa Parousisa Muscle Health Research Centre, School of Kinesiology and Health Science , York University , Toronto , ON , Canada.
Heather N Cartera Muscle Health Research Centre, School of Kinesiology and Health Science , York University , Toronto , ON , Canada.
Claudia Trana Muscle Health Research Centre, School of Kinesiology and Health Science , York University , Toronto , ON , Canada.
Avigail T Erlicha Muscle Health Research Centre, School of Kinesiology and Health Science , York University , Toronto , ON , Canada.
Zahra S Mesbah Moosavia Muscle Health Research Centre, School of Kinesiology and Health Science , York University , Toronto , ON , Canada.
Marion Paulya Muscle Health Research Centre, School of Kinesiology and Health Science , York University , Toronto , ON , Canada.
David A Hooda Muscle Health Research Centre, School of Kinesiology and Health Science , York University , Toronto , ON , Canada.
York University · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Macroautophagy/autophagy is a survival mechanism that facilitates protein turnover in post-mitotic cells in a lysosomal-dependent process. Mitophagy is a selective form of autophagy, which arbitrates the selective recognition and targeting of aberrant mitochondria for degradation. Mitochondrial content in cells is the net balance of mitochondrial catabolism via mitophagy, and organelle biogenesis. Although the latter process has been well described, mitophagy in skeletal muscle is less understood, and it is currently unknown how these two opposing mechanisms converge during contractile activity. Here we show that chronic contractile activity (CCA) in muscle cells induced mitochondrial biogenesis and coordinately enhanced the expression of TFEB (transcription factor EB) and PPARGC1A/PGC-1α, master regulators of lysosome and mitochondrial biogenesis, respectively. CCA also enhanced the expression of PINK1 and the lysosomal protease CTSD (cathepsin D). Autophagy blockade with bafilomycin A ABBREVIATIONS: AMPK: AMP-activated protein kinase; BafA: bafilomycin A

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Muscle, SkeletalAnimalsAutophagyCells, CulturedDown-RegulationExercise TherapyGene Expression RegulationMiceMitochondrial DiseasesMitochondria, MuscleMitophagyMuscle ContractionMuscle Fibers, SkeletalOxygen ConsumptionReactive Oxygen SpeciesReactive Oxygen SpeciesAutophagybafilomycinC2C12 muscle cellscontractile activitymitochondrial biogenesismitophagy

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PMID30078345
PMCPMC6152519
OpenAlexW2886249166

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