Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Monitoring spatiotemporal changes in chaperone-mediated autophagy in vivo

  • S. Dong,
  • C. Aguirre-Hernandez,
  • A. Scrivo,
  • C. Eliscovich,
  • E. Arias,
  • J. J. Bravo-Cordero,
  • A. M. Cuervo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14164-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Chaperone mediated autophagy (CMA) is selective but its activity in different tissue types has been unclear due to a lack of tools. Here, the authors generate transgenic mice expressing a CMA reporter that provides spatial and temporal in vivo data, uncovering differences in CMA in distinct tissues.