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New insight in treating autoimmune diseases by targeting autophagy

  • Jiao Lyu
  • , Hongqian Zhang
  • , Chaoyang Wang
  • , Mingyu Pan*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Autophagy is a highly conserved biological process in eukaryotes, which degrades cellular misfolded proteins, damaged organelles and invasive pathogens in the lysosome-dependent manner. Autoimmune diseases caused by genetic elements, environments and aberrant immune responses severely impact patients’ living quality and even threaten life. Recently, numerous studies have reported autophagy can regulate immune responses, and play an important role in autoimmune diseases. In this review, we summarised the features of autophagy and autophagy-related genes, enumerated some autophagy-related genes involved in autoimmune diseases, and further overviewed how to treat autoimmune diseases through targeting autophagy. Finally, we outlooked the prospect of relieving and curing autoimmune diseases by targeting autophagy pathway. © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Original languageEnglish
Article number2351872
JournalAutoimmunity
Volume57
Issue number1
Online published13 May 2024
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024

Research Keywords

  • ATGs
  • Autoimmune diseases
  • autophagy
  • treatments strategies

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  • This full text is made available under CC-BY-NC 4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

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