SynthesisEMBO molecular medicine2021
Emerging roles of ATG7 in human health and disease.
Synthesis in EMBO molecular medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 118 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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118 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 183 citations in OpenAlex.
- Reading the Signature of Autophagy in the Ischemic and Infarcted Heart: A Systematic Review of Circulating Biomarkers.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Pooled it
- Shaping the future of preclinical development of successful disease-modifying drugs against Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review of tau propagation models.Acta neuropathologica communications · 2024Pooled it
- Emerging roles of ATG7 in human health and disease.EMBO molecular medicine · 2021Pooled it
- A Hypothesis-Generating Pharmacologic Profile for Sargramostim Treatment of Parkinson's Disease.Cellular and molecular neurobiology · 2026Trial
- Cell Death in Neurodegenerative Diseases: Molecular Mechanisms and Therapeutic Targets.MedComm · 2026Review
- Dose-dependent effect of curcumin nanomicelle on autophagy signaling in testis; a study on normal Wistar rats.Molecular biology reports · 2026Article
- USP33 alleviates FIS1-dependent mitochondrial fission and cardiac microvascular injury in diabetic cardiomyopathy via deubiquitinating and stabilizing ATG7.Cell death & disease · 2026Article
- Bi-allelic ATG12 variants impair autophagy and cause a neurodevelopmental disorder.American journal of human genetics · 2026Article
- Design, synthesis, and mechanistic evaluation of propargylated salicylaldehyde derivatives as dual apoptosis-autophagy modulator for pancreatic cancer.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2026Article
- Sorting Nexin 10 Mediates Endosomal Acidification and Autophagy to Promote Influenza A Virus Infection.Viruses · 2026Article
- ATG7 Limits Basal Antiviral Gene Expression and Moderately Promotes VSV Replication in Mammalian Non-Immune Cells.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The mechanisms and functions of mitochondria-encapsulating extracellular vesicles.Science China. Life sciences · 2026Review
- Organotellurium Probes Enable One-step Single-cell Analysis of Post-translational Modification.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2026Article
- Hyaluronic Acid-like Skin Plumping and Radiance Benefits of aMarine drugs · 2026Article
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- A dynamic RNA editing landscape in porcine spleen highlights a post-transcriptional mechanism for immune maturation.Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG · 2026Article
- Autophagy and mitophagy at the synapse and beyond: implications for learning, memory and neurological disorders.Autophagy · 2026Review
- Integrating Single-Cell and Microarray Data to Explore the Role of Autophagy-Related Gene Atg7 in Osteoporosis.Journal of inflammation research · 2026Article
- Glycophagy: molecular mechanisms, regulatory signals, and disease associations.Autophagy reports · 2026Review
- Mitophagy in the pathogenesis and management of disease.Cell research · 2026Review
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
The cardinal stages of macroautophagy are driven by core autophagy-related (ATG) proteins, whose ablation largely abolishes intracellular turnover. Disrupting ATG genes is paradigmatic of studying autophagy deficiency, yet emerging data suggest that ATG proteins have extensive biological importance beyond autophagic elimination. An important example is ATG7, an essential autophagy effector enzyme that in concert with other ATG proteins, also regulates immunity, cell death and protein secretion, and independently regulates the cell cycle and apoptosis. Recently, a direct association between ATG7 dysfunction and disease was established in patients with biallelic ATG7 variants and childhood-onset neuropathology. Moreover, a prodigious body of evidence supports a role for ATG7 in protecting against complex disease states in model organisms, although how dysfunctional ATG7 contributes to manifestation of these diseases, including cancer, neurodegeneration and infection, in humans remains unclear. Here, we systematically review the biological functions of ATG7, discussing the impact of its impairment on signalling pathways and human pathology. Future studies illuminating the molecular relationship between ATG7 dysfunction and disease will expedite therapies for disorders involving ATG7 deficiency and/or impaired autophagy.
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