Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

Oxidation of SQSTM1/p62 mediates the link between redox state and protein homeostasis

  • Bernadette Carroll,
  • Elsje G. Otten,
  • Diego Manni,
  • Rhoda Stefanatos,
  • Fiona M. Menzies,
  • Graham R. Smith,
  • Diana Jurk,
  • Niall Kenneth,
  • Simon Wilkinson,
  • Joao F. Passos,
  • Johannes Attems,
  • Elizabeth A. Veal,
  • Elisa Teyssou,
  • Danielle Seilhean,
  • Stéphanie Millecamps,
  • Eeva-Liisa Eskelinen,
  • Agnieszka K. Bronowska,
  • David C. Rubinsztein,
  • Alberto Sanz,
  • Viktor I. Korolchuk

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02746-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The cellular mechanisms underlying autophagy are conserved; however it is unclear how they evolved in higher organisms. Here the authors identify two oxidation-sensitive cysteine residues in the autophagy receptor SQSTM1/p62 in vertebrates which allow activation of pro-survival autophagy in stress conditions.