Nature Communications (May 2021)

Model-based analysis uncovers mutations altering autophagy selectivity in human cancer

  • Zhu Han,
  • Weizhi Zhang,
  • Wanshan Ning,
  • Chenwei Wang,
  • Wankun Deng,
  • Zhidan Li,
  • Zehua Shang,
  • Xiaofei Shen,
  • Xiaohui Liu,
  • Otto Baba,
  • Tsuyoshi Morita,
  • Lu Chen,
  • Yu Xue,
  • Da Jia

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23539-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Although autophagy has been linked to tumourigenesis, it is unclear how genomic alterations affect autophagy selectivity in tumours. Here, the authors establish a pipeline that integrates computational and experimental approaches to show that altered autophagy selectivity is frequent in cancer cells and link glycogen autophagy with tumourigenesis.