p(HGNC:ATG5)
Cilostazol (a phosphodiesterase 3 inhibitor) clears Aβ42 from neuronal cell lines by promoting autophagy, upregulating beclin 1, ATG5 and LC3, downregulating mTORC1 and inducing lysosomal cathepsin B; these actions of cilostazol involve activation of SIRT1 as well as upstream Tyr172 phosphorylation of AMPK 108,162,163 . PubMed:30116051
SIRT1 is activated by AMPK- mediated increases in nicotinamide, and it drives the ALN by inhibiting mTORC1, inducing FOXO1 and FOXO3 and activating key regulatory proteins such as ATG5, ATG7 and LC3. PubMed:30116051
As mentioned above, dramatic illustration of the interrelatedness of the UPS and autophagy was provided by characterizations of mice with conditional knockout of the essential autophagy genes Atg5 or Atg7 in the central nervous system, which resulted in neurodegeneration with accumulation of ubiquitin-positive pathology [36,37]. PubMed:18930136
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