PMID- 29626215 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20190819 LR - 20200306 IS - 1471-0080 (Electronic) IS - 1471-0072 (Print) IS - 1471-0072 (Linking) VI - 19 IP - 6 DP - 2018 Jun TI - The coming of age of chaperone-mediated autophagy. PG - 365-381 LID - 10.1038/s41580-018-0001-6 [doi] AB - Chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA) was the first studied process that indicated that degradation of intracellular components by the lysosome can be selective - a concept that is now well accepted for other forms of autophagy. Lysosomes can degrade cellular cytosol in a nonspecific manner but can also discriminate what to target for degradation with the involvement of a degradation tag, a chaperone and a sophisticated mechanism to make the selected proteins cross the lysosomal membrane through a dedicated translocation complex. Recent studies modulating CMA activity in vivo using transgenic mouse models have demonstrated that selectivity confers on CMA the ability to participate in the regulation of multiple cellular functions. Timely degradation of specific cellular proteins by CMA modulates, for example, glucose and lipid metabolism, DNA repair, cellular reprograming and the cellular response to stress. These findings expand the physiological relevance of CMA beyond its originally identified role in protein quality control and reveal that CMA failure with age may aggravate diseases, such as ageing-associated neurodegeneration and cancer. FAU - Kaushik, Susmita AU - Kaushik S AD - Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA. susmita.kaushik@einstein.yu.edu. AD - Institute for Aging Studies, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA. susmita.kaushik@einstein.yu.edu. FAU - Cuervo, Ana Maria AU - Cuervo AM AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-0771-700X AD - Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA. ana-maria.cuervo@einstein.yu.edu. AD - Institute for Aging Studies, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA. ana-maria.cuervo@einstein.yu.edu. LA - eng GR - U54 NS100717/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 AG021904/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States GR - P30 DK041296/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States GR - R37 AG021904/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States GR - RF1 AG054108/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 DK098408/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States GR - P01 AG031782/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Review PL - England TA - Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol JT - Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology JID - 100962782 RN - 0 (Molecular Chaperones) MH - Animals MH - Autophagy/*physiology MH - Humans MH - Lysosomes/metabolism/physiology MH - Molecular Chaperones/*metabolism MH - Neoplasms/metabolism/pathology MH - Neurodegenerative Diseases/metabolism/pathology PMC - PMC6399518 MID - NIHMS1008550 COIS- Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests. EDAT- 2018/04/08 06:00 MHDA- 2019/08/20 06:00 PMCR- 2019/06/01 CRDT- 2018/04/08 06:00 PHST- 2018/04/08 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/08/20 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2018/04/08 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2019/06/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1038/s41580-018-0001-6 [pii] AID - 10.1038/s41580-018-0001-6 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2018 Jun;19(6):365-381. doi: 10.1038/s41580-018-0001-6.