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Schwann cells ER-associated degradation contributes to myelin maintenance in adult nerves and limits demyelination in CMT1B mice

Maurizio Molinari

In the peripheral nervous system (PNS) myelinating Schwann cells synthesize large amounts of myelin protein zero (P0) glycoprotein, an abundant component of peripheral nerve myelin. In humans, mutations in P0 cause the demyelinating Charcot-Marie-Tooth 1B ...

2019

Er-Phagy: Mechanisms, Regulation, And Diseases Connected To The Lysosomal Clearance Of The Endoplasmic Reticulum

Maurizio Molinari

ER-phagy (reticulophagy) defines the degradation of portions of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) within lysosomes or vacuoles. It is part of the self-digestion (i.e., autophagic) programs recycling cytoplasmic material and organelles, which rapidly mobilize ...

2022

Fluorescent Reporters, Imaging, and Artificial Intelligence Toolkits to Monitor and Quantify Autophagy, Heterophagy, and Lysosomal Trafficking Fluxes

Maurizio Molinari

Lysosomal compartments control the clearance of cell-own material (autophagy) or of material that cells endocytose from the external environment (heterophagy) to warrant supply of nutrients, to eliminate macromolecules or parts of organelles present in exc ...

WILEY2024

ER-phagy responses in yeast, plants, and mammalian cells and their crosstalk with UPR and ERAD

Maurizio Molinari

ER-phagy, literally endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-eating, defines the constitutive or regulated clearance of ER portions within metazoan endolysosomes or yeast and plant vacuoles. The advent of electron microscopy led to the first observations of ER-phagy ove ...

Cell Press - Elsevier2021

Thioredoxin-Related Transmembrane Proteins: TMX1 and Little Brothers TMX2, TMX3, TMX4 and TMX5

Maurizio Molinari

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is site of synthesis and maturation of membrane and secretory proteins in eukaryotic cells. The ER contains more than 20 members of the Protein Disulfide Isomerase (PDI) family. These enzymes regulate formation, isomerization ...

2020

Rescue of secretion of rare-disease-associated misfolded mutant glycoproteins in UGGT1 knock-out mammalian cells

Maurizio Molinari

Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) retention of misfolded glycoproteins is mediated by the ER-localized eukaryotic glycoprotein secretion checkpoint, UDP-glucose glycoprotein glucosyl-transferase (UGGT). The enzyme recognizes a misfolded glycoprotein and flags it ...

Wiley2024

The intrinsically disordered regions of organellophagy receptors are interchangeable and control organelle fragmentation, ER-phagy and mitophagy flux

Maurizio Molinari

Organellophagy receptors control the generation and delivery of portions of their homing organelle to acidic degradative compartments to recycle nutrients, remove toxic or aged macromolecules and remodel the organelle upon physiologic or pathologic cues. H ...

2025

TMX5/TXNDC15, a natural trapping mutant of the PDI family is a client of the proteostatic factor ERp44

Maurizio Molinari

The ER is the organelle of nucleated cells that produces lipids, sugars, and proteins. More than 20 ER-resident members of the protein disulfide isomerase (PDI) family regulate formation, isomerization, and disassembly of covalent bonds in newly synthesize ...

LIFE SCIENCE ALLIANCE LLC2024

Endoplasmic Reticulum and Lysosomal Quality Control of Four Nonsense Mutants of Iduronate 2-Sulfatase Linked to Hunter's Syndrome

Maurizio Molinari, Andrea Cavalli

Hunter's syndrome (mucopolysaccharidosis type II) is a rare X-linked lysosomal storage disorder caused by mutations in the iduronate-2-sulfatase (IDS) gene. Motivated by the case of a child affected by this syndrome, we compared the intracellular fate of w ...

2020

ER-to-lysosome-associated degradation acts as failsafe mechanism upon ERAD dysfunction

Maurizio Molinari

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) produces proteins destined to organelles of the endocytic and secretory pathways, the plasma membrane, and the extracellular space. While native proteins are transported to their intra- or extracellular site of activity, fold ...

Springernature2024

ER-to-lysosome-associated degradation in a nutshell: mammalian, yeast, and plant ER-phagy as induced by misfolded proteins

Maurizio Molinari

Conserved catabolic pathways operate to remove aberrant polypeptides from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), the major biosynthetic organelle of eukaryotic cells. The best known are the ER-associated degradation (ERAD) pathways that control the retrotransloca ...

2023

TMX4-driven LINC complex disassembly and asymmetric autophagy of the nuclear envelope upon acute ER stress

Maurizio Molinari

The endoplasmic reticulum(ER) is an organelle of nucleated cells that produces proteins, lipids and oligosaccharides. ER volume and activity are increased upon induction of unfolded protein responses (UPR) and are reduced upon activation of ER-phagy progra ...

Nature Research2023

Coronaviruses Hijack the LC3-I-Positive EDEMosomes, ER-Derived Vesicles Exporting Short-Lived ERAD Regulators, for Replication

Maurizio Molinari

Coronaviruses (CoV), including SARS and mouse hepatitis virus (MHV), are enveloped RNA viruses that induce formation of double-membrane vesicles (DMVs) and target their replication and transcription complexes (RTCs) on the DMV-limiting membranes. The DMV b ...

2010

Allosteric Modulation of GCase Enhances Lysosomal Activity and Reduces ER Stress in GCase-Related Disorders

Mikhail Rudinskiy, Maurizio Molinari

Variants in the GBA1 gene, encoding the lysosomal enzyme glucosylceramidase beta 1 (GCase), are linked to Parkinson’s disease (PD) and Gaucher disease (GD). Heterozygous variants increase PD risk, while homozygous variants lead to GD, a lysosomal storage d ...

MDPI AG2025

Transgenic expression of beta 1 antibody in brain neurons impairs age-dependent amyloid deposition in APP23 mice

Maurizio Molinari

Heterologous expression of the functional amyloid beta (A beta) antibody beta 1 in the central nervous system was engineered to maximize antibody exposure in the brain and assess the effects on A beta production and accumulation in these conditions. A sing ...

Elsevier Science Inc2013

Proteostasis: Bad news and good news from the endoplasmic reticulum

Maurizio Molinari

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is an intracellular compartment dedicated to the synthesis and maturation of secretory and membrane proteins, totalling about 30% of the total eukaryotic cells proteome. The capacity to produce correctly folded polypeptides a ...

E M H Swiss Medical Publishers Ltd2014

Chronic delivery of antibody fragments using immunoisolated cell implants as a passive vaccination tool

Rolf Gruetter, Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Patrick Aebischer, Maurizio Molinari, Maria Isabel Cordero Campana, Jean-Charles Bensadoun, Nicolas Bouche, Veronica Setola

BACKGROUND: Monoclonal antibodies and antibody fragments are powerful biotherapeutics for various debilitating diseases. However, high production costs, functional limitations such as inadequate pharmacokinetics and tissue accessibility are the current pri ...

Public Library of Science2011

A novel UGGT1 and p97-dependent checkpoint for native ectodomains with ionizable intramembrane residue

Maurizio Molinari

Only native polypeptides are released from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) to be transported at the site of activity. Persistently misfolded proteins are retained and eventually selected for ER-associated degradation (ERAD). The paradox of a structure-based ...

Amer Soc Cell Biology2015

Quality control mechanisms of protein biogenesis: proteostasis dies hard

Maurizio Molinari

The biosynthesis of proteins entails a complex series of chemical reactions that transform the information stored in the nucleic acid sequence into a polypeptide chain that needs to properly fold and reach its functional location in or outside the cell. It ...

Amer Inst Mathematical Sciences-Aims2016

Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

Olaia Maria Naveiras Torres-Quiroga, Maurizio Molinari

In 2008, we published the first set of guidelines for standardizing research in autophagy. Since then, this topic has received increasing attention, and many scientists have entered the field. Our knowledge base and relevant new technologies have also been ...

2021