Spoon-Feeding Ribosomes to Autophagy

Hitoshi Nakatogawa

doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2018.07.003

Spoon-Feeding Ribosomes to Autophagy

Mol Cell. 2018 Jul 19;71(2):197-199. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2018.07.003.

Author

Hitoshi Nakatogawa¹

Affiliation

¹ School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 226-8501, Japan. Electronic address: hnakatogawa@bio.titech.ac.jp.

PMID: 30029000
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2018.07.003

Abstract

The ribosome, a ribonucleoprotein machine for protein synthesis, can also serve as an abundant nutrient source under starvation conditions. In a recent issue of Science, Wyant et al. (2018) discovered a specialized "spoon" to "scoop up" more ribosomes for degradation by autophagy.

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MeSH terms

Autophagy
Humans
Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear*
Ribosomes
Starvation*

Substances

Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear
ribosome receptor