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Front Cell Dev Biol. 2020 Mar 04;8:121. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2020.00121. eCollection 2020.

The Role of Autophagy in Glaucomatous Optic Neuropathy.

Frontiers in cell and developmental biology

Annagrazia Adornetto, Vincenzo Parisi, Luigi Antonio Morrone, Maria Tiziana Corasaniti, Giacinto Bagetta, Paolo Tonin, Rossella Russo

Affiliations

  1. Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, Section of Preclinical and Translational Pharmacology, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy.
  2. Visual Neurophysiology and Neurophthalmology Research Unit, IRCCS G.B. Bietti Foundation, Rome, Italy.
  3. Department of Health Sciences, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy.
  4. Regional Center for Serious Brain Injuries, S. Anna Institute, Crotone, Italy.

PMID: 32211404 PMCID: PMC7066980 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2020.00121

Abstract

Autophagy is a conserved lysosomal-dependent pathway responsible for the degradation of cytoplasmic macromolecules. Based on the mechanism of cargo delivery to lysosomes, mammalian cells can undergo micro, macro, and chaperone-mediated autophagy. Other than physiological turnover of proteins and organelles, autophagy regulates cellular adaptation to different metabolic states and stressful conditions by allowing cellular survival or, when overactivated, participating to cell death. Due to their structure and function, neurons are highly dependent on autophagy efficiency and dysfunction of the pathway has been associated with neurodegenerative disorders. Glaucomatous optic neuropathies, a leading cause of blindness, are characterized by the progressive loss of a selective population of retinal neurons, i.e., the retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). Here we review the current literature on the role of autophagy in the pathogenic process that leads to the degeneration of RGC in various experimental models of glaucoma exploring the modulation of the pathway as a potential therapeutic intervention.

Copyright © 2020 Adornetto, Parisi, Morrone, Corasaniti, Bagetta, Tonin and Russo.

Keywords: CMA; LC3; autophagy; glaucoma; mitophagy; p62; retina; retinal ganglion cells

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