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  1. Article: Potency Assay Development: A Keystone for Clinical Use.

    Torggler, Raffaela / Margreiter, Eva / Marksteiner, Rainer / Thurner, Marco

    Advances in experimental medicine and biology

    2023  Volume 1420, Page(s) 13–28

    Abstract: Potency can be described as the quantitative measure of biological activity, that is, the ability of an Advanced Therapy Medicinal Product (ATMP) to elicit the intended effect necessary for clinical efficacy. Potency testing is part of the quality ... ...

    Abstract Potency can be described as the quantitative measure of biological activity, that is, the ability of an Advanced Therapy Medicinal Product (ATMP) to elicit the intended effect necessary for clinical efficacy. Potency testing is part of the quality control strategy necessary for batch release and is required for market approval application of an ATMP. Thus, it is crucial to develop a reliable and accurate potency assay. As a prerequisite for potency assay development, it is essential to define the mode of action of the product and thereby also the relevant biological activity that should be measured. The establishment of a potency assay should be initiated already during early product development followed by its progressive implementation into an ATMP's manufacturing, quality control and release process. Potency testing is indispensable for clinical use with a wide range of applications. A potency assay is a valuable tool to determine the product's stability, detect the impact of changes in the manufacturing process on the product, demonstrate quality and manufacturing consistency from batch to batch, estimate clinical efficacy and define the effective dose. This chapter describes the requirements and challenges to be considered for potency assay development and the importance of a well-established potency assay for clinical use.
    MeSH term(s) Quality Control ; Treatment Outcome
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-06-01
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 2214-8019 ; 0065-2598
    ISSN (online) 2214-8019
    ISSN 0065-2598
    DOI 10.1007/978-3-031-30040-0_2
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  2. Article ; Online: Decoding the function of Atg13 phosphorylation reveals a role of Atg11 in bulk autophagy initiation.

    Bhattacharya, Anuradha / Torggler, Raffaela / Reiter, Wolfgang / Romanov, Natalie / Licheva, Mariya / Ciftci, Akif / Mari, Muriel / Kolb, Lena / Kaiser, Dominik / Reggiori, Fulvio / Ammerer, Gustav / Hollenstein, David M / Kraft, Claudine

    EMBO reports

    2024  Volume 25, Issue 2, Page(s) 813–831

    Abstract: Autophagy is initiated by the assembly of multiple autophagy-related proteins that form the phagophore assembly site where autophagosomes are formed. Atg13 is essential early in this process, and a hub of extensive phosphorylation. How these multiple ... ...

    Abstract Autophagy is initiated by the assembly of multiple autophagy-related proteins that form the phagophore assembly site where autophagosomes are formed. Atg13 is essential early in this process, and a hub of extensive phosphorylation. How these multiple phosphorylations contribute to autophagy initiation, however, is not well understood. Here we comprehensively analyze the role of phosphorylation events on Atg13 during nutrient-rich conditions and nitrogen starvation. We identify and functionally characterize 48 in vivo phosphorylation sites on Atg13. By generating reciprocal mutants, which mimic the dephosphorylated active and phosphorylated inactive state of Atg13, we observe that disrupting the dynamic regulation of Atg13 leads to insufficient or excessive autophagy, which are both detrimental to cell survival. We furthermore demonstrate an involvement of Atg11 in bulk autophagy even during nitrogen starvation, where it contributes together with Atg1 to the multivalency that drives phase separation of the phagophore assembly site. These findings reveal the importance of post-translational regulation on Atg13 early during autophagy initiation, which provides additional layers of regulation to control bulk autophagy activity and integrate cellular signals.
    MeSH term(s) Phosphorylation ; Autophagy/physiology ; Autophagy-Related Proteins/genetics ; Autophagy-Related Proteins/metabolism ; Signal Transduction ; Nitrogen ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/genetics ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/metabolism
    Chemical Substances Autophagy-Related Proteins ; Nitrogen (N762921K75) ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-01-17
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2020896-0
    ISSN 1469-3178 ; 1469-221X
    ISSN (online) 1469-3178
    ISSN 1469-221X
    DOI 10.1038/s44319-023-00055-9
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  3. Article: Assays to Monitor Autophagy in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    Torggler, Raffaela / Papinski, Daniel / Kraft, Claudine

    Cells

    2017  Volume 6, Issue 3

    Abstract: Autophagy is an intracellular process responsible for the degradation and recycling of cytoplasmic components. It selectively removes harmful cellular material and enables the cell to survive starvation by mobilizing nutrients via the bulk degradation of ...

    Abstract Autophagy is an intracellular process responsible for the degradation and recycling of cytoplasmic components. It selectively removes harmful cellular material and enables the cell to survive starvation by mobilizing nutrients via the bulk degradation of cytoplasmic components. While research over the last decades has led to the discovery of the key factors involved in autophagy, the pathway is not yet completely understood. The first studies of autophagy on a molecular level were conducted in the yeast
    Language English
    Publishing date 2017-07-13
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ZDB-ID 2661518-6
    ISSN 2073-4409
    ISSN 2073-4409
    DOI 10.3390/cells6030023
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  4. Article ; Online: Assays to Monitor Autophagy in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Raffaela Torggler / Daniel Papinski / Claudine Kraft

    Cells, Vol 6, Iss 3, p

    2017  Volume 23

    Abstract: Autophagy is an intracellular process responsible for the degradation and recycling of cytoplasmic components. It selectively removes harmful cellular material and enables the cell to survive starvation by mobilizing nutrients via the bulk degradation of ...

    Abstract Autophagy is an intracellular process responsible for the degradation and recycling of cytoplasmic components. It selectively removes harmful cellular material and enables the cell to survive starvation by mobilizing nutrients via the bulk degradation of cytoplasmic components. While research over the last decades has led to the discovery of the key factors involved in autophagy, the pathway is not yet completely understood. The first studies of autophagy on a molecular level were conducted in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Building up on these studies, many homologs have been found in higher eukaryotes. Yeast remains a highly relevant model organism for studying autophagy, with a wide range of established methods to elucidate the molecular details of the autophagy pathway. In this review, we provide an overview of methods to study both selective and bulk autophagy, including intermediate steps in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We compare different assays, discuss their advantages and limitations and list potential applications.
    Keywords yeast ; bulk autophagy ; Cvt pathway ; selective autophagy ; PAS ; autophagosome ; autophagic body ; iPass ; M-Track ; Biology (General) ; QH301-705.5
    Subject code 571
    Language English
    Publishing date 2017-07-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher MDPI AG
    Document type Article ; Online
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  5. Article ; Online: Reconstitution reveals Ykt6 as the autophagosomal SNARE in autophagosome-vacuole fusion.

    Bas, Levent / Papinski, Daniel / Licheva, Mariya / Torggler, Raffaela / Rohringer, Sabrina / Schuschnig, Martina / Kraft, Claudine

    The Journal of cell biology

    2018  Volume 217, Issue 10, Page(s) 3656–3669

    Abstract: Autophagy mediates the bulk degradation of cytoplasmic material, particularly during starvation. Upon the induction of autophagy, autophagosomes form a sealed membrane around cargo, fuse with a lytic compartment, and release the cargo for degradation. ... ...

    Abstract Autophagy mediates the bulk degradation of cytoplasmic material, particularly during starvation. Upon the induction of autophagy, autophagosomes form a sealed membrane around cargo, fuse with a lytic compartment, and release the cargo for degradation. The mechanism of autophagosome-vacuole fusion is poorly understood, although factors that mediate other cellular fusion events have been implicated. In this study, we developed an in vitro reconstitution assay that enables systematic discovery and dissection of the players involved in autophagosome-vacuole fusion. We found that this process requires the Atg14-Vps34 complex to generate PI3P and thus recruit the Ypt7 module to autophagosomes. The HOPS-tethering complex, recruited by Ypt7, is required to prepare SNARE proteins for fusion. Furthermore, we discovered that fusion requires the R-SNARE Ykt6 on the autophagosome, together with the Q-SNAREs Vam3, Vam7, and Vti1 on the vacuole. These findings shed new light on the mechanism of autophagosome-vacuole fusion and reveal that the R-SNARE Ykt6 is required for this process.
    MeSH term(s) Autophagosomes/metabolism ; Class III Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases/genetics ; Class III Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases/metabolism ; Membrane Fusion ; Qa-SNARE Proteins/genetics ; Qa-SNARE Proteins/metabolism ; Qb-SNARE Proteins/genetics ; Qb-SNARE Proteins/metabolism ; R-SNARE Proteins/genetics ; R-SNARE Proteins/metabolism ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genetics ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae/metabolism ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/genetics ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/metabolism ; Synaptosomal-Associated Protein 25/genetics ; Synaptosomal-Associated Protein 25/metabolism ; Vacuoles/genetics ; Vacuoles/metabolism ; rab GTP-Binding Proteins/genetics ; rab GTP-Binding Proteins/metabolism
    Chemical Substances Qa-SNARE Proteins ; Qb-SNARE Proteins ; R-SNARE Proteins ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins ; Synaptosomal-Associated Protein 25 ; VAM3 protein, S cerevisiae ; VAM7 protein, S cerevisiae ; VTI1 protein, S cerevisiae ; YKT6 protein, S cerevisiae ; Class III Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases (EC 2.7.1.137) ; YPT7 protein, S cerevisiae (EC 3.6.1.-) ; rab GTP-Binding Proteins (EC 3.6.5.2)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2018-08-10
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 218154-x
    ISSN 1540-8140 ; 0021-9525
    ISSN (online) 1540-8140
    ISSN 0021-9525
    DOI 10.1083/jcb.201804028
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  6. Article ; Online: Vac8 spatially confines autophagosome formation at the vacuole in

    Hollenstein, David M / Gómez-Sánchez, Rubén / Ciftci, Akif / Kriegenburg, Franziska / Mari, Muriel / Torggler, Raffaela / Licheva, Mariya / Reggiori, Fulvio / Kraft, Claudine

    Journal of cell science

    2019  Volume 132, Issue 22

    Abstract: Autophagy is initiated by the formation of a phagophore assembly site (PAS), the precursor of autophagosomes. In mammals, autophagosome formation sites form throughout the cytosol in specialized subdomains of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). In yeast, the ...

    Abstract Autophagy is initiated by the formation of a phagophore assembly site (PAS), the precursor of autophagosomes. In mammals, autophagosome formation sites form throughout the cytosol in specialized subdomains of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). In yeast, the PAS is also generated close to the ER, but always in the vicinity of the vacuole. How the PAS is anchored to the vacuole and the functional significance of this localization are unknown. Here, we investigated the role of the PAS-vacuole connection for bulk autophagy in the yeast
    MeSH term(s) Autophagosomes/metabolism ; Autophagy ; Membrane Proteins/metabolism ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae/cytology ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae/metabolism ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/metabolism ; Vacuoles/metabolism ; Vesicular Transport Proteins/metabolism
    Chemical Substances Membrane Proteins ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins ; VAC8 protein, S cerevisiae ; Vesicular Transport Proteins
    Language English
    Publishing date 2019-11-14
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2993-2
    ISSN 1477-9137 ; 0021-9533
    ISSN (online) 1477-9137
    ISSN 0021-9533
    DOI 10.1242/jcs.235002
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  7. Article: Two Independent Pathways within Selective Autophagy Converge to Activate Atg1 Kinase at the Vacuole

    Torggler, Raffaela / Andrea Brezovich / Claudine Kraft / Daniel Papinski / David Schweida / Levent Bas / Martina Schuschnig / Sabrina Rohringer / Tamara Matzhold / Thaddäus Pfaffenwimmer / Thorsten Brach

    Molecular cell. 2016 Oct. 20, v. 64, no. 2

    2016  

    Abstract: Autophagy is a potent cellular degradation pathway, and its activation needs to be tightly controlled. Cargo receptors mediate selectivity during autophagy by bringing cargo to the scaffold protein Atg11 and, in turn, to the autophagic machinery, ... ...

    Abstract Autophagy is a potent cellular degradation pathway, and its activation needs to be tightly controlled. Cargo receptors mediate selectivity during autophagy by bringing cargo to the scaffold protein Atg11 and, in turn, to the autophagic machinery, including the central autophagy kinase Atg1. Here we show how selective autophagy is tightly regulated in space and time to prevent aberrant Atg1 kinase activation and autophagy induction. We established an induced bypass approach (iPass) that combines genetic deletion with chemically induced dimerization to evaluate the roles of Atg13 and cargo receptors in Atg1 kinase activation and selective autophagy progression. We show that Atg1 activation does not require cargo receptors, cargo-bound Atg11, or Atg13 per se. Rather, these proteins function in two independent pathways that converge to activate Atg1 at the vacuole. This pathway architecture underlies the spatiotemporal control of Atg1 kinase activity, thereby preventing inappropriate autophagosome formation.
    Keywords autophagy ; dimerization ; receptors ; scaffolding proteins ; space and time ; vacuoles
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2016-1020
    Size p. 221-235.
    Publishing place Elsevier Inc.
    Document type Article
    ZDB-ID 1415236-8
    ISSN 1097-4164 ; 1097-2765
    ISSN (online) 1097-4164
    ISSN 1097-2765
    DOI 10.1016/j.molcel.2016.09.008
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  8. Article ; Online: The Arrhythmogenic Calmodulin Mutation D129G Dysregulates Cell Growth, Calmodulin-dependent Kinase II Activity, and Cardiac Function in Zebrafish.

    Berchtold, Martin W / Zacharias, Triantafyllos / Kulej, Katarzyna / Wang, Kevin / Torggler, Raffaela / Jespersen, Thomas / Chen, Jau-Nian / Larsen, Martin R / la Cour, Jonas M

    The Journal of biological chemistry

    2016  Volume 291, Issue 52, Page(s) 26636–26646

    Abstract: Calmodulin (CaM) is a ... ...

    Abstract Calmodulin (CaM) is a Ca
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Arrhythmias, Cardiac/genetics ; Calcium/metabolism ; Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase Type 2/metabolism ; Calmodulin/chemistry ; Calmodulin/genetics ; Calmodulin/metabolism ; Cell Proliferation/genetics ; Cells, Cultured ; Humans ; Long QT Syndrome/etiology ; Long QT Syndrome/metabolism ; Long QT Syndrome/pathology ; Mutation/genetics ; Myocytes, Cardiac/metabolism ; Myocytes, Cardiac/pathology ; Phosphorylation ; Protein Conformation ; Tachycardia, Ventricular/etiology ; Tachycardia, Ventricular/metabolism ; Tachycardia, Ventricular/pathology ; Zebrafish/genetics ; Zebrafish/growth & development ; Zebrafish/metabolism
    Chemical Substances Calmodulin ; Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase Type 2 (EC 2.7.11.17) ; Calcium (SY7Q814VUP)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2016-11-04
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2997-x
    ISSN 1083-351X ; 0021-9258
    ISSN (online) 1083-351X
    ISSN 0021-9258
    DOI 10.1074/jbc.M116.758680
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  9. Article ; Online: Two Independent Pathways within Selective Autophagy Converge to Activate Atg1 Kinase at the Vacuole.

    Torggler, Raffaela / Papinski, Daniel / Brach, Thorsten / Bas, Levent / Schuschnig, Martina / Pfaffenwimmer, Thaddäus / Rohringer, Sabrina / Matzhold, Tamara / Schweida, David / Brezovich, Andrea / Kraft, Claudine

    Molecular cell

    2016  Volume 64, Issue 2, Page(s) 221–235

    Abstract: Autophagy is a potent cellular degradation pathway, and its activation needs to be tightly controlled. Cargo receptors mediate selectivity during autophagy by bringing cargo to the scaffold protein Atg11 and, in turn, to the autophagic machinery, ... ...

    Abstract Autophagy is a potent cellular degradation pathway, and its activation needs to be tightly controlled. Cargo receptors mediate selectivity during autophagy by bringing cargo to the scaffold protein Atg11 and, in turn, to the autophagic machinery, including the central autophagy kinase Atg1. Here we show how selective autophagy is tightly regulated in space and time to prevent aberrant Atg1 kinase activation and autophagy induction. We established an induced bypass approach (iPass) that combines genetic deletion with chemically induced dimerization to evaluate the roles of Atg13 and cargo receptors in Atg1 kinase activation and selective autophagy progression. We show that Atg1 activation does not require cargo receptors, cargo-bound Atg11, or Atg13 per se. Rather, these proteins function in two independent pathways that converge to activate Atg1 at the vacuole. This pathway architecture underlies the spatiotemporal control of Atg1 kinase activity, thereby preventing inappropriate autophagosome formation.
    MeSH term(s) Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/genetics ; Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/metabolism ; Aminopeptidases/genetics ; Aminopeptidases/metabolism ; Autophagy/genetics ; Autophagy-Related Proteins/genetics ; Autophagy-Related Proteins/metabolism ; Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal ; Green Fluorescent Proteins/genetics ; Green Fluorescent Proteins/metabolism ; Phagosomes/metabolism ; Protein Kinases/genetics ; Protein Kinases/metabolism ; Protein Multimerization ; Protein Transport ; Receptors, Cell Surface/genetics ; Receptors, Cell Surface/metabolism ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins/genetics ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genetics ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae/metabolism ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/genetics ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/metabolism ; Signal Transduction ; Vacuoles/metabolism ; Vesicular Transport Proteins/genetics ; Vesicular Transport Proteins/metabolism
    Chemical Substances ATG13 protein, S cerevisiae ; ATG19 protein, S cerevisiae ; Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing ; Atg11 protein, S cerevisiae ; Autophagy-Related Proteins ; Receptors, Cell Surface ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins ; Vesicular Transport Proteins ; Green Fluorescent Proteins (147336-22-9) ; Protein Kinases (EC 2.7.-) ; ATG1 protein, S cerevisiae (EC 2.7.1.-) ; Aminopeptidases (EC 3.4.11.-) ; APE1 protein, S cerevisiae (EC 3.4.11.22)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2016-11-03
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1415236-8
    ISSN 1097-4164 ; 1097-2765
    ISSN (online) 1097-4164
    ISSN 1097-2765
    DOI 10.1016/j.molcel.2016.09.008
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