ArticleScience advances2023
ULK1-mediated metabolic reprogramming regulates Vps34 lipid kinase activity by its lactylation.
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- The lactate-lactylation axis in renal fibrosis: potential mechanisms in diabetic kidney disease.Annals of medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Scientific landscape of oxidative stress in sarcopenia: from bibliometric analysis to hotspots review.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Pooled it
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- Metabolic memory in the kidney: how lactate and lactylation drive the path from acute injury to chronic disease.Renal failure · 2026Review
- Exercise-induced protein lactylation: From molecular mechanisms to precision health applications.iScience · 2026Review
- Lactate metabolism and protein lactylation in programmed cell death: From novel mechanism to therapeutic strategies in human diseases.Clinical and translational medicine · 2026Review
- The lactate-lactylation axis in acute kidney injury: mechanisms from metabolic reprogramming to epigenetic regulation and clinical therapeutic prospects.International urology and nephrology · 2026Review
- KAT5-mediated HSPA1A lactylation drives immunotherapy resistance by inhibiting STAT1 degradation in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.Oncogene · 2026Article
- XPA lactylation is required for UV-induced DNA damage repair.Nucleic acids research · 2026Article
- Lactylation Remodels Tumorigenesis, Immune Microenvironment, and Therapeutic Response.Current issues in molecular biology · 2026Review
- Roles of lactate and protein lactylation in neurogenesis and neurodegenerative disease.Journal of translational medicine · 2026Review
- A lipid transfer-dependent feedback loop activates ATG9A compartments in autophagy initiation.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Lactylation: A central metabolic-epigenetic driver of sepsis-associated acute kidney injury.Molecular biology reports · 2026Review
- Lysine l-Lactylation: Bridging Metabolism, Chromatin and Disease.Cell proliferation · 2026Review
- Comparative Quantitative Profiling of Protein Lactylation Reveals a Dynamic Tissues-Specific Network Associated with Metabolic Specialization in Yaks.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Crosstalk between lactylation and other post-translational modifications in health and diseases.Molecular biomedicine · 2026Review
- Myofibroblast- specific autophagy drives cyst growth in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease.Cell communication and signaling : CCS · 2026Article
- Protein lactylation in health and diseases: molecular mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical implications.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2026Review
- Brain-muscle axis regulation of neuroinflammation and sarcopenia in Parkinson's disease: the bridging role of lactylation.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2026Review
- Kat5 deficiency in alveolar type II cells licenses STAT6-driven glycolytic reprogramming and pulmonary fibrosis.Nature communications · 2026Article
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Abstract
Autophagy and glycolysis are highly conserved biological processes involved in both physiological and pathological cellular programs, but the interplay between these processes is poorly understood. Here, we show that the glycolytic enzyme lactate dehydrogenase A (LDHA) is activated upon UNC-51-like kinase 1 (ULK1) activation under nutrient deprivation. Specifically, ULK1 directly interacts with LDHA, phosphorylates serine-196 when nutrients are scarce and promotes lactate production. Lactate connects autophagy and glycolysis through Vps34 lactylation (at lysine-356 and lysine-781), which is mediated by the acyltransferase KAT5/TIP60. Vps34 lactylation enhances the association of Vps34 with Beclin1, Atg14L, and UVRAG, and then increases Vps34 lipid kinase activity. Vps34 lactylation promotes autophagic flux and endolysosomal trafficking. Vps34 lactylation in skeletal muscle during intense exercise maintains muscle cell homeostasis and correlates with cancer progress by inducing cell autophagy. Together, our findings describe autophagy regulation mechanism and then integrate cell autophagy and glycolysis.
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