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ArticleAutophagy reports2025

The TECPR1:ATG5-ATG12 complex conjugates LC3/ATG8 to damaged lysosomes that expose luminal glycans in response to osmotic imbalance.

Yingxue Wang, Matthew Jefferson, Maria Ramos, Matthew Whelband, Kristin Kreuzer, Grace Khuu, Michael Lazarou, James Mccoll, James Lazenby, Cynthia B Whitchurch and 3 more

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Article in Autophagy reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Full length TECPR1 displays 'cis' Dysferlin domain architecture.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  5. Canonical and noncanonical autophagy: involvement in Parkinson's disease.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Yingxue WangNorwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6814-0382
Matthew JeffersonNorwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2133-9487
Maria RamosNorwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
Matthew WhelbandNorwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
Kristin KreuzerNorwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
Grace KhuuWalter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Australia.
Michael LazarouWalter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Australia.
James MccollSchool of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
James LazenbyQuadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6198-2640
Cynthia B WhitchurchSchool of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
Paul VerkadeSchool of Biochemistry, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
Ulrike MayerSchool of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2328-0052
Thomas WilemanNorwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9033-2580

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hydrolytic enzymes within lysosomes maintain cell and tissue homoeostasis by degrading macromolecules delivered by endocytosis and autophagy. The release of lysosomal enzymes into the cytosol can induce apoptosis and "lysosome-dependent cell death" making it important for damaged lysosomes to be repaired or removed. Extensive lysosome damage exposes luminal sugars to galectin-dependent autophagy pathways that use ATG16L1:ATG5-ATG12 complex to conjugate LC3/ATG8 to autophagosomes to facilitate removal by lysophagy. Sphingomyelin exposed on stressed lysosomes recruits the lysosome tethering protein TECPR1 (tectonin beta propeller repeat-containing protein) allowing an alternative TECRP1:ATG5-ATG12 complex to conjugate LC3 directly to lysosomes. Here we have used cells lacking ATG16L1 to follow the recruitment of TECPR1, galectin-3 and LC3/ATG8 to lysosomes in response to osmotic imbalance induced by chloroquine. TECPR1 was recruited to swollen lysosomes that exposed sphingomyelin. LC3II was absent from swollen lysosomes but located to small puncta that contained the V-ATPase and LAMP1. The presence of galectin-3 and PI4P in the small LC3 puncta suggested that the TECPR1:ATG5-ATG12 complex conjugates LC3 to lysosome remnants that have ruptured in response to osmotic imbalance.

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ATG16L1Autophagychloroquinegalectin 3LC3/ATG8lysosome damageosmotic stresssphingomyelinTECPR1

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PMID40458442
PMCPMC12128658

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