PMID- 25595300 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20151125 LR - 20240322 IS - 1095-9130 (Electronic) IS - 1046-2023 (Print) IS - 1046-2023 (Linking) VI - 75 DP - 2015 Mar TI - Methods to study chaperone-mediated autophagy. PG - 133-40 LID - S1046-2023(15)00007-9 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.ymeth.2015.01.003 [doi] AB - Chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA) is a multistep process that involves selective degradation and digestion of a pool of soluble cytosolic proteins in lysosomes. Cytosolic substrates are selectively identified and targeted by chaperones to lysosomes where they are subsequently translocated into the organelle lumen through a dedicated CMA-associated lysosomal membrane receptor/translocation complex. CMA contributes to maintaining a functional proteome, through elimination of altered proteins, and participates in the cellular energetic balance through amino acid recycling. Defective or dysfunctional CMA has been associated with human pathologies such as neurodegeneration, cancer, immunodeficiency or diabetes, increasing the overall interest in methods to monitor this selective autophagic pathway. Here, we describe approaches used to study CMA in different experimental models. CI - Copyright (c) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Patel, Bindi AU - Patel B AD - Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA; Institute for Aging Studies, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA. FAU - Cuervo, Ana Maria AU - Cuervo AM AD - Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA; Institute for Aging Studies, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA. Electronic address: ana-maria.cuervo@einstein.yu.edu. LA - eng GR - P01 AG031782/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States GR - P30 DK041296/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 DK098408/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States GR - R37 AG021904/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20150114 PL - United States TA - Methods JT - Methods (San Diego, Calif.) JID - 9426302 RN - 0 (Molecular Chaperones) SB - IM MH - Autophagy/*genetics MH - Humans MH - Lysosomes/genetics/metabolism MH - Molecular Biology/*methods MH - Molecular Chaperones/*genetics/metabolism MH - Proteolysis PMC - PMC4355229 MID - NIHMS655752 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Autophagy OT - Fluorescent reporters OT - Lysosomes OT - Organelle isolation OT - Proteolysis EDAT- 2015/01/18 06:00 MHDA- 2015/12/15 06:00 PMCR- 2016/03/01 CRDT- 2015/01/18 06:00 PHST- 2014/11/12 00:00 [received] PHST- 2014/12/30 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2015/01/06 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2015/01/18 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2015/01/18 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/12/15 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2016/03/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - S1046-2023(15)00007-9 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.ymeth.2015.01.003 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Methods. 2015 Mar;75:133-40. doi: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2015.01.003. Epub 2015 Jan 14.