C. elegansmidbodies are released, phagocytosed and undergo LC3-dependent degradation independent of macroautophagy

Noncanonical autophagy inhibits the autoinflammatory, lupus-like response to dying cells

(2016) Jennifer Martinez et al.   NATURE

Membrane dynamics in autophagosome biogenesis

(2015) S. R. Carlsson et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Molecular characterization of LC3-associated phagocytosis reveals distinct roles for Rubicon, NOX2 and autophagy proteins

(2015) Jennifer Martinez et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Beclin orthologs: integrative hubs of cell signaling, membrane trafficking, and physiology

(2015) Beth Levine et al.   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

Lipidome of midbody released from neural stem and progenitor cells during mammalian cortical neurogenesis

(2015) Yoko Arai et al.   Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Coupling of Rotational Cortical Flow, Asymmetric Midbody Positioning, and Spindle Rotation Mediates Dorsoventral Axis Formation in C. elegans

(2014) Deepika Singh et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

The C. elegans LC3 Acts Downstream of GABARAP to Degrade Autophagosomes by Interacting with the HOPS Subunit VPS39

(2014) Marion Manil-Ségalen et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Engulfment of the midbody remnant after cytokinesis in mammalian cells

(2014) E. F. Crowell et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

TRAF6 mediates ubiquitination of KIF23/MKLP1 and is required for midbody ring degradation by selective autophagy

(2013) Pauline Isakson et al.   Autophagy

Noncanonical Autophagy Promotes the Visual Cycle

(2013) Ji-Young Kim et al.   CELL

Connecting polarized cytokinesis to epithelial architecture

(2013) Eurico Morais-de-Sá et al.   CELL CYCLE

Stereotyped distribution of midbody remnants in early C. elegans embryos requires cell death genes and is dispensable for development

(2013) Guangshuo Ou et al.   CELL RESEARCH

The midbody ring scaffolds the abscission machinery in the absence of midbody microtubules

(2013) Rebecca A. Green et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Centrosome-dependent asymmetric inheritance of the midbody ring in Drosophila germline stem cell division

(2013) Viktoria Salzmann et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

ULK1 induces autophagy by phosphorylating Beclin-1 and activating VPS34 lipid kinase

(2013) Ryan C. Russell et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Microglial Beclin 1 Regulates Retromer Trafficking and Phagocytosis and Is Impaired in Alzheimer’s Disease

(2013) Kurt M. Lucin et al.   NEURON

Endocytic transport and cytokinesis: from regulation of the cytoskeleton to midbody inheritance

(2013) John A. Schiel et al.   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

Cytokinesis in Animal Cells

(2012) Rebecca A. Green et al.   Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Autophagy genes function in apoptotic cell corpse clearance duringC. elegansembryonic development

(2012) Shuyi Huang et al.   Autophagy

A Genome-Scale Resource for In Vivo Tag-Based Protein Function Exploration in C. elegans

(2012) Mihail Sarov et al.   CELL

Involvement of Beclin 1 in Engulfment of Apoptotic Cells

(2012) Akimitsu Konishi et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Apoptotic regulators promote cytokinetic midbody degradation inC. elegans

(2012) Yongping Chai et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Two PI 3-Kinases and One PI 3-Phosphatase Together Establish the Cyclic Waves of Phagosomal PtdIns(3)P Critical for the Degradation of Apoptotic Cells

(2012) Nan Lu et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The coiled-coil domain protein EPG-8 plays an essential role in the autophagy pathway inC. elegans

(2011) Peiguo Yang et al.   Autophagy

A High-Resolution C. elegans Essential Gene Network Based on Phenotypic Profiling of a Complex Tissue

(2011) Rebecca A. Green et al.   CELL

The P4-ATPase TAT-5 Inhibits the Budding of Extracellular Vesicles in C. elegans Embryos

(2011) Ann M. Wehman et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Midbody accumulation through evasion of autophagy contributes to cellular reprogramming and tumorigenicity

(2011) Tse-Chun Kuo et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Autophagy machinery mediates macroendocytic processing and entotic cell death by targeting single membranes

(2011) Oliver Florey et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Dynamics of endosomal sorting complex required for transport (ESCRT) machinery during cytokinesis and its role in abscission

(2011) N. Elia et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Microtubule-associated protein 1 light chain 3 alpha (LC3)-associated phagocytosis is required for the efficient clearance of dead cells

(2011) J. Martinez et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Degradation of Paternal Mitochondria by Fertilization-Triggered Autophagy in C. elegans Embryos

(2011) M. Sato et al.   SCIENCE

Postfertilization Autophagy of Sperm Organelles Prevents Paternal Mitochondrial DNA Transmission

(2011) S. Al Rawi et al.   SCIENCE

Cortical Constriction During Abscission Involves Helices of ESCRT-III-Dependent Filaments

(2011) J. Guizetti et al.   SCIENCE

Proliferating versus differentiating stem and cancer cells exhibit distinct midbody-release behaviour

(2011) Andreas W. Ettinger et al.   Nature Communications

C. elegans Screen Identifies Autophagy Genes Specific to Multicellular Organisms

(2010) Ye Tian et al.   CELL

Retromer Is Required for Apoptotic Cell Clearance by Phagocytic Receptor Recycling

(2010) D. Chen et al.   SCIENCE

The Beclin 1–VPS34 complex – at the crossroads of autophagy and beyond

(2010) Sarah F. Funderburk et al.   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

SEPA-1 Mediates the Specific Recognition and Degradation of P Granule Components by Autophagy in C. elegans

(2009) Yuxia Zhang et al.   CELL

Rab5 modulates aggregation and toxicity of mutant huntingtin through macroautophagy in cell and fly models of Huntington disease

(2008) B. Ravikumar et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

A pathway for phagosome maturation during engulfment of apoptotic cells

(2008) Jason M. Kinchen et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Midbody ring disposal by autophagy is a post-abscission event of cytokinesis

(2008) Christian Pohl et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Polarization of the C. elegans Embryo by RhoGAP-Mediated Exclusion of PAR-6 from Cell Contacts

(2008) D. C. Anderson et al.   SCIENCE