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ReviewChinese medicine2020

Transcription factor EB agonists from natural products for treating human diseases with impaired autophagy-lysosome pathway.

Jie Xu, Xiao-Qi Zhang, Zaijun Zhang

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Review in Chinese medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jie XuGuangdong Provincial Engineering Research Center for Modernization of TCM, Institute of New Drug Research, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Pharmacodynamic, Constituents of TCM and New Drug Research, College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, 510632, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China.
Xiao-Qi ZhangGuangdong Provincial Engineering Research Center for Modernization of TCM, Institute of New Drug Research, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Pharmacodynamic, Constituents of TCM and New Drug Research, College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, 510632, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China. xqzhang74@hotmail.com.
Zaijun ZhangGuangdong Provincial Engineering Research Center for Modernization of TCM, Institute of New Drug Research, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Pharmacodynamic, Constituents of TCM and New Drug Research, College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, 510632, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China. zaijunzhang@163.com.
Jinan University · CN

Funding

Local Innovative and Research Teams Project of Guangdong Pearl River Talents Program 2017BT01Y036National Key R&D Program of China 2017YFC1703802National Natural Science Foundation of China 81872842National Natural Science Foundation of China U1801287Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province 2020A1515011061Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province 2018B020207008Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province 2020B1111110004
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Autophagy is a highly conserved degradation process for long-lived intracellular proteins and organelles mediated by lysosomes. Deficits in the autophagy-lysosome pathway (ALP) have been linked to a variety of human diseases, including neurodegenerative diseases, lysosomal storage disorders, and cancers. Transcription factor EB (TFEB) has been identified as a major regulator of autophagy and lysosomal biogenesis. Increasing evidence has demonstrated that TFEB activation can promote the clearance of toxic protein aggregates and regulate cellular metabolism. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM)-derived natural products as important sources for drug discovery have been widely used for the treatment of various diseases associated with ALP dysfunction. Herein, we review (1) the regulation of TFEB and ALP; (2) TFEB and ALP dysregulation in human diseases; (3) TFEB activators from natural products and their potential uses.

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AutophagyAutophagy-lysosome pathwayNatural productsTFEBTFEB agonists

Identifiers

PMID33292395
PMCPMC7684757
OpenAlexW3108025290

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