proteaphagy
traitmech:000645 · CLASS · PROPOSED
An autophagy phenotype in which a microbial cell degrades its proteasomes or proteasome subcomplexes by delivering them to lysosomal or vacuolar compartments.
Trait evidence
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DOI:10.1074/jbc.M115.699124Here we show that in yeast, upon nitrogen starvation, proteasomes are targeted for vacuolar degradation through autophagy.
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DOI:10.1016/j.celrep.2016.07.015Here, we define two proteaphagy routes in yeast that respond to either nitrogen starvation or particle inactivation.
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DOI:10.1016/j.jbc.2021.101494Indeed, we found that several conditions that activated general autophagy did not induce proteaphagy, further distinguishing proteaphagy from general autophagy.
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DOI:10.1074/jbc.M115.699124
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kg-microbe context
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Discussions and Knowledge Gaps
Review proteasome-cargo scope and qualified GO alignment.
Proteasomes are the autophagic cargo, not the machinery degrading unrelated substrates. Ordinary proteasome-mediated proteolysis, proteasome biogenesis, storage granules, free-subunit loss or gene presence alone does not establish this phenotype. The 2016 starvation study includes separately targeted core and regulatory particles, so do not require intact holoenzyme uptake. GO:0061816, directly resolved at https://www.ebi.ac.uk/QuickGO/services/ontology/go/terms/GO%3A0061816, is a nonobsolete biological process restricted to selective macroautophagy, not an exact organismal phenotype. The cargo-defined local term does not impose a universal route, trigger or selectivity mechanism; retain this scope difference for human review and omit exact xrefs and synonyms. Ribophagy traitmech:000641 and nuclear-cargo degradation traitmech:000643 are distinct: shared machinery or prior nuclear localization does not equate these cargo phenotypes.
Resolve route-specific mechanisms, figures and natural exemplars.
Keep starvation and inactive-particle quality-control routes distinct. The later ATG11 result concerns residual turnover in an ATG17 deletion background; neither an abstract's general wording nor a single deletion establishes universal necessity. Do not turn reduced efficiency, a detection limit or partial turnover into complete absence. Resolve the 2016 Figure 6D Rpn10 caption/body discrepancy and inspect the corrected Figure S3 associated with DOI:10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110552 before relying on those panels. Canonical examples remain unset pending independent natural-strain provenance. The microbial cell performing degradation carries the phenotype, not a bacterium eliciting an animal host response. Native taxon-paired protein accessions and functional evidence are required before a causal graph is added; ATG presence, puncta or loss of total proteasome abundance alone is not proof of autophagic flux.
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Added proteasome-cargo autophagy with three DOI-backed scientific-abstract snippets, subcomplex scope, context-specific ATG11 interpretation and explicit correction/figure limits. Ignored-and-hidden novelty checks, fresh seed and pinned METPO review found no exact record. Reserved METPO:1059800 in v521 using unchanged corrected parent context from v520. Deferred unverified exemplars, mappings and protein graphs.