Friday Lecture Series
Friday, September, 25th 2015
3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium
Beth Levine, M.D.
Charles Cameron Sprague Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Science,
Director, Center for Autophagy Research,
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine and Microbiology,
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Molecular Regulation and Functions of Beclin 1 and the Autophagy Pathway
Recommended Readings
Empirical Articles
Liu, Y., Shoji-Kawata, S., Sumpter, R. M., Wei, Y., Ginet, V., Zhang, L., … & Levine, B. (2013). Autosis is a Na+, K+-ATPase–regulated form of cell death triggered by autophagy-inducing peptides, starvation, and hypoxia–ischemia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(51), 20364-20371. doi:10.1073/pnas.1319661110
Nassif, M., Valenzuela, V., Rojas-Rivera, D., Vidal, R., Matus, S., Castillo, K., … & Hetz, C. (2014). Pathogenic role of BECN1/Beclin 1 in the development of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Autophagy, 10(7), 1256-1271. doi:10.4161/auto.28784
Pedro, J. M. B. S., Wei, Y., Sica, V., Maiuri, M. C., Zou, Z., Kroemer, G., & Levine, B. (2015). BAX and BAK1 are dispensable for ABT-737-induced dissociation of the BCL2-BECN1 complex and autophagy. Autophagy, 11(3), 452-459. doi:10.1080/15548627.2015.1017191
Review Papers
Galluzzi, L., Pietrocola, F., Levine, B., & Kroemer, G. (2014). Metabolic control of autophagy. Cell, 159(6), 1263-1276. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.11.006.
Levine, B., Liu, R., Dong, X., & Zhong, Q. (2015). Beclin orthologs: integrative hubs of cell signaling, membrane trafficking, and physiology. Trends in Cell Biology, 25(9), 533-544. doi:10.1016/j.tcb.2015.05.004
