Essential role for autophagy protein VMP1 in maintaining neuronal homeostasis and preventing axonal degeneration

Abstract Vacuole membrane protein 1 (VMP1), the endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-localized autophagy protein, plays a key role during the autophagy process in mammalian cells. To study the impact of VMP1-deficiency on midbrain dopaminergic (mDAergic) neurons, we selectively deleted VMP1 in the mDAergic ne...

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Main Authors: Panpan Wang, Xi Chen, Yuanyuan Wang, Congcong Jia, Xinyao Liu, Ying Wang, Haifeng Wu, Huaibin Cai, Han-Ming Shen, Weidong Le
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-01-01
Series:Cell Death and Disease
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41419-021-03412-5