PMID- 30610733 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20190606 LR - 20200621 IS - 1940-6029 (Electronic) IS - 1064-3745 (Print) IS - 1064-3745 (Linking) VI - 1880 DP - 2019 TI - Analysis of Chaperone-Mediated Autophagy. PG - 703-727 LID - 10.1007/978-1-4939-8873-0_47 [doi] AB - Chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA) is a selective type of autophagy whereby a specific subset of intracellular proteins is targeted to the lysosome for degradation. These proteins are identified by a chaperone that targets them to lysosomes. There, they are translocated into the organelle lumen through a lysosomal membrane receptor/translocation complex. CMA plays an important role in maintaining cellular proteostasis by eliminating damaged and altered proteins. CMA also participates in the control of the cellular energetic balance through recycling of amino acids resulting from lysosomal proteolysis of the substrate proteins. Lastly, due to the intrinsic protein selectivity of CMA, this type of autophagy exerts regulatory functions by mediating timely degradation of key cellular proteins that participate in processes such as lipid and glucose metabolism, cell cycle, DNA repair, and cellular reprogramming, among others. Dysfunctional CMA occurs with age and has now been described in a growing list of human pathologies such as metabolic disorders, neurodegeneration, cancer, immunodeficiency, and diabetes. In this chapter, we describe current methodologies to quantitatively analyze CMA activity in different experimental models. FAU - Juste, Y R AU - Juste YR AD - Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology, Bronx, NY, USA. AD - Institute for Aging Studies, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA. FAU - Cuervo, A M AU - Cuervo AM AD - Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology, 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 - R37 AG021904/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States GR - RF1 AG054108/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States GR - P01 AG031782/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 DK098408/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States GR - P01 AG017617/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PL - United States TA - Methods Mol Biol JT - Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) JID - 9214969 RN - 0 (Leupeptins) RN - 0 (Molecular Chaperones) RN - 01Q9PC255D (Ammonium Chloride) RN - J97339NR3V (leupeptin) SB - IM MH - Ammonium Chloride/pharmacology MH - Animals MH - Autophagy/drug effects/*physiology MH - Biological Assay/instrumentation/*methods MH - Female MH - Leupeptins/pharmacology MH - Liver/cytology/metabolism MH - Lysosomes/drug effects/*metabolism MH - Male MH - Mice MH - Mice, Inbred C57BL MH - Molecular Chaperones/*metabolism MH - Proteolysis/drug effects MH - Rats MH - Rats, Wistar PMC - PMC7017676 MID - NIHMS1069327 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Chaperones OT - Lysosomes OT - Proteolysis OT - Subcellular fractionation EDAT- 2019/01/06 06:00 MHDA- 2019/06/07 06:00 PMCR- 2020/02/13 CRDT- 2019/01/06 06:00 PHST- 2019/01/06 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2019/01/06 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/06/07 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/02/13 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1007/978-1-4939-8873-0_47 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Methods Mol Biol. 2019;1880:703-727. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-8873-0_47.