Nature Communications (Feb 2020)

AMPK-dependent activation of the Cyclin Y/CDK16 complex controls autophagy

  • Marc Dohmen,
  • Sarah Krieg,
  • Georgios Agalaridis,
  • Xiaoqing Zhu,
  • Saifeldin N. Shehata,
  • Elisabeth Pfeiffenberger,
  • Jan Amelang,
  • Mareike Bütepage,
  • Elena Buerova,
  • Carolina M. Pfaff,
  • Dipanjan Chanda,
  • Stephan Geley,
  • Christian Preisinger,
  • Kei Sakamoto,
  • Bernhard Lüscher,
  • Dietbert Neumann,
  • Jörg Vervoorts

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14812-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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AMPK integrates information about a cell’s energy status to inform decisions about cellular processes, including autophagy. Here the authors identify cyclin Y as an AMPK substrate, which phosphorylates cyclin Y and promotes its interaction with CDK16 to stimulate autophagy.