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ArticleAutophagy2020

Podocytes maintain high basal levels of autophagy independent of mtor signaling.

Tillmann Bork, Wei Liang, Kosuke Yamahara, Philipp Lee, Zhejia Tian, Shuya Liu, Christoph Schell, Kathrin Thedieck, Bjoern Hartleben, Ketan Patel and 3 more

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Article in Autophagy, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 60 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
60citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
7.5field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

60 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 99 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  4. Podocyte Metabolic Reprogramming and Targeted Therapy.Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN · 2026
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  6. The Life of a Kidney Podocyte.Acta physiologica (Oxford, England) · 2025
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  8. Piezo, Nephrocyte Function, and Slit Diaphragm Maintenance in Drosophila.Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN · 2025
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  10. mTORC1 signaling and diabetic kidney disease.Diabetology international · 2024
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  19. Role of renal tubular programed cell death in diabetic kidney disease.Diabetes/metabolism research and reviews · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 6 institutions in 7 countries.

Tillmann BorkDepartment of Medicine IV, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg , Freiburg, Germany.
Wei LiangDepartment of Medicine IV, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg , Freiburg, Germany.
Kosuke YamaharaDepartment of Medicine IV, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg , Freiburg, Germany.
Philipp LeeDepartment of Medicine IV, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg , Freiburg, Germany.
Zhejia TianDepartment of Medicine IV, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg , Freiburg, Germany.
Shuya LiuIII. Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf , Hamburg, Germany.
Christoph SchellDepartment of Medicine IV, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg , Freiburg, Germany.
Kathrin ThedieckInstitute of Biochemistry and Center for Molecular Biosciences Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck , Innsbruck, Austria.
Bjoern HartlebenInstitute of Pathology, Hannover Medical School , Hannover, Germany.
Ketan PatelSchool of Biological Science, University of Reading , Reading, UK.
Pierre-Louis TharauxPARCC, INSERM, Université de Paris , Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0002-6062-5905
Olivia LenoirPARCC, INSERM, Université de Paris , Paris, France.
Tobias B HuberIII. Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf , Hamburg, Germany.
University of Freiburg · DEInserm · FRUniversität Hamburg · DECarl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg · DEMedizinische Hochschule Hannover · DEShiga University of Medical Science · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While constant basal levels of macroautophagy/autophagy are a prerequisite to preserve long-lived podocytes at the filtration barrier, MTOR regulates at the same time podocyte size and compensatory hypertrophy. Since MTOR is known to generally suppress autophagy, the apparently independent regulation of these two key pathways of glomerular maintenance remained puzzling. We now report that long-term genetic manipulation of MTOR activity does in fact not influence high basal levels of autophagy in podocytes either

Indexed as

AnimalsAutophagyHumansMechanistic Target of Rapamycin Complex 1Mice, TransgenicPodocytesSignal TransductionSirolimusTOR Serine-Threonine KinasesMechanistic Target of Rapamycin Complex 1MTOR protein, humanSirolimusTOR Serine-Threonine KinasesAMPKautophagyglomeruluskidneyLC3MTORpodocyterapamycinRaptorsignalingTsc1

Identifiers

PMID31865844
PMCPMC7595647
OpenAlexW2961174880

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