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SUBMITTER: Ma X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3225892 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ma Xiuquan X Jin Mingzhi M Cai Yu Y Xia Hongguang H Long Kai K Liu Junli J Yu Qiang Q Yuan Junying J
Chemistry & biology 20111101 11
Autophagy is a cellular lysosome-dependent catabolic mechanism mediating the turnover of intracellular organelles and long-lived proteins. We show that antimycin A, a known inhibitor of mETC complex III, can inhibit autophagy. A structural and functional study shows that four close analogs of antimycin A that have no effect on mitochondria inhibition also do not inhibit autophagy, whereas myxothiazol, another mETC complex III inhibitor with unrelated structure to antimycin A, inhibits autophagy. ...[more]