PMID- 30315466 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20190606 LR - 20191210 IS - 1940-6029 (Electronic) IS - 1064-3745 (Linking) VI - 1862 DP - 2019 TI - Determining the Impact of Metabolic Nutrients on Autophagy. PG - 151-162 LID - 10.1007/978-1-4939-8769-6_11 [doi] AB - Tumorigenesis relies on the ability of cancer cells to obtain necessary nutrients and fulfill increased energy demands associated with rapid proliferation. However, as a result of increased metabolite consumption and poor vascularization, most cancer cells must survive in a nutrient poor and high cellular stress microenvironment. Cancer cells undergo metabolic reprogramming to evade cell death and ensure proliferation; in particular, cancer cells utilize the catabolic process of autophagy. Autophagy creates an intracellular pool of metabolites by sequestering cytosolic macromolecules in double-membrane vesicles targeted for lysosomal degradation. During times of environmental stress and nutrient starvation, autophagy is upregulated through the dynamic interactions between two nutrient sensing proteins, AMP activated protein kinase (AMPK) and mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR), in cooperation with Unc-51 like autophagy activating kinase 1 (ULK1). In this way, a lack of metabolic nutrients plays a critical role in inducing autophagy, while the products of autophagy also serve as readily available fuel for the cell. In this chapter, we describe methods to visualize and quantify autophagy using a fluorescent sensor of autophagic membranes. Thus, the impact of specific nutrients on autophagy can be measured using live-cell fluorescent microscopy. FAU - Guillaume, Jessica D AU - Guillaume JD AD - College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, Grand Rapids, MI, USA. FAU - Celano, Stephanie L AU - Celano SL AD - College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, Grand Rapids, MI, USA. FAU - Martin, Katie R AU - Martin KR AD - College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, Grand Rapids, MI, USA. FAU - MacKeigan, Jeffrey P AU - MacKeigan JP AD - College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, Grand Rapids, MI, USA. jeff.mackeigan@chm.msu.edu. LA - eng GR - R01 CA197398/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PL - United States TA - Methods Mol Biol JT - Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) JID - 9214969 RN - 0 (Culture Media) RN - 0 (Microtubule-Associated Proteins) RN - 147336-22-9 (Green Fluorescent Proteins) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Autophagosomes/metabolism MH - Autophagy/physiology MH - Carcinogenesis/pathology MH - Cell Culture Techniques/instrumentation/*methods MH - Cell Line, Tumor MH - Culture Media/chemistry MH - Green Fluorescent Proteins/chemistry MH - Humans MH - Intravital Microscopy/instrumentation/*methods MH - Metabolomics/instrumentation/*methods MH - Microscopy, Fluorescence/instrumentation/methods MH - Microtubule-Associated Proteins/chemistry/metabolism MH - Nutrients/*analysis/metabolism MH - Single Molecule Imaging/instrumentation/methods MH - Single-Cell Analysis/instrumentation/methods OTO - NOTNLM OT - Amino acid metabolism OT - Autophagy OT - Cancer OT - Fluorescent microscopy OT - Glycolysis OT - LC3 EDAT- 2018/10/14 06:00 MHDA- 2019/06/07 06:00 CRDT- 2018/10/14 06:00 PHST- 2018/10/14 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2018/10/14 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/06/07 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1007/978-1-4939-8769-6_11 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Methods Mol Biol. 2019;1862:151-162. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-8769-6_11.