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ReviewGenetics2025

Conserved components of the macroautophagy machinery in Caenorhabditis elegans.

Hong Zhang, Alicia Meléndez

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Review in Genetics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
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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

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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

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Autophagy: A Double-Edged Sword in the Aging ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2026
    Review
  5. Review
  6. Developing Endogenous Autophagy Reporters inInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
    Article
  7. Frontiers in tuberculosis · 2025
    Review
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

2 authors.

Hong ZhangNational Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, New Cornerstone Science Laboratory, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, P.R. China.
Alicia MeléndezDepartment of Biology, Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing, NY 11367, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1362-7705

Funding

Enhancing and expanding the CGC Strain CollectionP40OD010440 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI Aric L Daul, Ann E. Rougvie · 2012 to 2026
$7.5M
Role of autophagy and retromer genes in GLP-1/Notch signalingR15GM102846 · NIGMS · QUEENS COLLEGE · PI MELENDEZ, ALICIA · 2012 to 2020
$1.2M
AI-powered cross-level cross-species omics data integration to elucidate mechanisms of ELR21AG083302 · NIA · HUNTER COLLEGE · PI MELENDEZ, ALICIA, XIE, LEI · 2023 to 2023
$459k
Binational Science Foundation 2017227National Institute of Health 1R21AG083302-01National Institute of Health (NIH) 2R15GM102846-03National Natural Science Foundation of China 82188101National Science Foundation/Binational Science Foundation 2223241New Cornerstone Science FoundationNIA NIH HHS R21 AG083302NIGMS NIH HHS R15 GM102846NIH HHS P40 OD010440
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Macroautophagy involves the sequestration of cytoplasmic contents in a double-membrane autophagosome and its subsequent delivery to lysosomes for degradation and recycling. In Caenorhabditis elegans, autophagy participates in diverse processes such as stress resistance, cell fate specification, tissue remodeling, aging, and adaptive immunity. Genetic screens in C. elegans have identified a set of metazoan-specific autophagy genes that form the basis for our molecular understanding of steps unique to the autophagy pathway in multicellular organisms. Suppressor screens have uncovered multiple mechanisms that modulate autophagy activity under physiological conditions. C. elegans also provides a model to investigate how autophagy activity is coordinately controlled at an organismal level. In this chapter, we will discuss the molecular machinery, regulation, and physiological functions of autophagy, and also methods utilized for monitoring autophagy during C. elegans development.

Indexed as

AutophagyCaenorhabditis elegansMacroautophagyAnimalsAutophagosomesCaenorhabditis elegans ProteinsLysosomesCaenorhabditis elegans ProteinsaggrephagyautophagyC. elegansdevelopmentdietary restrictionhormesislipophagylongevitylysophagylysosomemitophagyP granulesWormBookxenophagy

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PMID40180610
PMCPMC12005284

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