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ArticlePlant physiology2021

Autophagy is required for lipid homeostasis during dark-induced senescence.

Jessica A S Barros, Sahar Magen, Taly Lapidot-Cohen, Leah Rosental, Yariv Brotman, Wagner L Araújo, Tamar Avin-Wittenberg

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Article in Plant physiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 40 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Autophagy in plants.Autophagy reports · 2024
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  8. Molecular Machinery of Lipid Droplet Degradation and Turnover in Plants.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  13. Exploring the Contribution of Autophagy to the Excess-Sucrose Response inInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Jessica A S BarrosDepartamento de Biologia Vegetal, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, 36570-900 Viçosa, Brazil.
Sahar MagenDepartment of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givat Ram 9190401, Israel.
Taly Lapidot-CohenDepartment of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 8410501 Beer-Sheva, Israel.
Leah RosentalDepartment of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 8410501 Beer-Sheva, Israel.
Yariv BrotmanDepartment of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 8410501 Beer-Sheva, Israel.
Wagner L AraújoDepartamento de Biologia Vegetal, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, 36570-900 Viçosa, Brazil.
Tamar Avin-WittenbergDepartment of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givat Ram 9190401, Israel.
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev · ILHebrew University of Jerusalem · ILUniversidade Federal de Viçosa · BR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved mechanism that mediates the degradation of cytoplasmic components in eukaryotic cells. In plants, autophagy has been extensively associated with the recycling of proteins during carbon-starvation conditions. Even though lipids constitute a significant energy reserve, our understanding of the function of autophagy in the management of cell lipid reserves and components remains fragmented. To further investigate the significance of autophagy in lipid metabolism, we performed an extensive lipidomic characterization of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) autophagy mutants (atg) subjected to dark-induced senescence conditions. Our results revealed an altered lipid profile in atg mutants, suggesting that autophagy affects the homeostasis of multiple lipid components under dark-induced senescence. The acute degradation of chloroplast lipids coupled with the differential accumulation of triacylglycerols (TAGs) and plastoglobuli indicates an alternative metabolic reprogramming toward lipid storage in atg mutants. The imbalance of lipid metabolism compromises the production of cytosolic lipid droplets and the regulation of peroxisomal lipid oxidation pathways in atg mutants.

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DarknessArabidopsisArabidopsis ProteinsAutophagyAutophagy-Related Protein 5ChloroplastsGenetic VariationGenotypeHomeostasisLipid MetabolismMutationArabidopsis ProteinsAutophagy-Related Protein 5

Identifiers

PMID33793926
PMCPMC8133563
OpenAlexW3127401487

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