Structural Biology of the Cvt Pathway

2017/01/07 by Akinori Yamasaki, Nobuo N. Noda · 12 citations
Medicine · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Autophagy in Disease and Therapy #Studies on Chitinases and Chitosanases #Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease

paper · doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2017.01.003

Abstract

Macroautophagy is a degradation process in which autophagosomes are generated to isolate and transport various materials, including damaged organelles and protein aggregates, as cargos to the lysosomes or vacuoles. Bulk autophagy is one of the two types of macroautophagy, which is triggered by starvation and targets non-specific cargos. The second type, that is, selective autophagy, identifies and preferentially degrades specific cargos via receptor recognition. Cytoplasm-to-vacuole targeting (Cvt) is a selective autophagy pathway that specifically transports vacuolar hydrolases into the vacuole in budding yeast cells and has been extensively studied as a model of selective autophagy. In the present review, we focused on the Cvt pathway, especially on the recent structural insights into cargo assembly, receptor recognition, and recruitment mechanisms of the Cvt machinery. Elucidating the Cvt pathway would help in understanding the basic molecular mechanisms of various types of selective autophagy.

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