Andrew Thorburn, D.Phil., BSc

Publications

• Kenefic C, Thorburn A, Debnath J Autophagy and metastasis: another double-edged sword. Curr Opin Cell Biol 22:241-245 (2010)
• Clark PE, Poloshukina DA, Gyabaah K, Moses HL, Thorburn A, Zent R TRAIL and IFN? act synergistically to induce renal cell carcinoma apoptosis. J Urol (In Press) (2010)
• Kulbe, J.R., Mulcahy-Levy, J.M., Coultrap, S.J. Thorburn, A., and Bayer, U. (2014). “Excitoxic glutamate insults block autophagic flux in hippocampal neurons.” Brain Research. 1542, 12-19. PMID:24505621 PMCID: PMC3934833
• Gump, J.M., Staskiewicz, L., Morgan, M.J., Bamberg, A., Riches, D.W.H. and Thorburn, A. (2014) “Autophagy variation within a cell population determines cell fate via selective degradation of Fap-1” Nature Cell Biology 16, 47-56. PMID: 24316673 PMCID: PMC3876036.
• Thorburn, J., Andrysik, Z., Staskiewicz, L., Gump, J., Maycotte, P., Oberst, A., Green, D.R. Espinosa, J.M. and Thorburn, A. (2014) “Autophagy controls the kinetics and extent of mitochondrial apoptosis by regulating PUMA levels.” Cell Reports 7, 45-52. PMID: 24685133 PMCID: PMC 3992854
• Mulcahy Levy, J.M., Thompson, J.C., Greisinger, A.M., Amani, V., Donson, A.M., Birks, D.K., Morgan, M.J., Mirsky, D.M., Handler, M.H., Foreman, N.K., and Thorburn, A. (2014) “Autophagy inhibition improves chemosensitivity in BRAFV600E brain tumors.” Cancer Discovery 4, 773-780. PMID: 24823863 PMC In Process
• Maycotte, P., Gearheart, C.M., Barnard, R., Aryal, S., Mulcahy Levy, J.M., Fosmire, S.P., Hansen, R.J., Morgan, M.J., Porter, C.C., Gustafson, D.L. and Thorburn, A. (2014) “STAT3-mediated autophagy dependence identifies subtypes of breast cancer where autophagy inhibition can be efficacious. “ Cancer Research 74, 2579-2590. PMID: 24590058 PMCID. PMC4008672
• Barnard, R.A., Wittenburg, L.A., Amaravadi, R.K., Gustafson, D.L., Thorburn, A., and Thamm, D.H. (2014) “Phase I clinical trial and pharmacodynamic evaluation of combination hydroxychloroquine and doxorubicin treatment in pet dogs treated for spontaneously occurring lymphoma. “ Autophagy. 10, 1415-1425. PMID: 24991836 PMCID: In Process
• Thorburn, A., Thamm, D.H., Gustafson, D.L. (2014) “Autophagy and cancer therapy.” Molecular Pharmacology. 85, 830-838. PMID: 24574520 PMCID In process
• Maycotte, P., and Thorburn, A. (2014) “Targeting Autophagy in Breast Cancer.” World Journal of Clinical Oncology 5, 224-240. PMID: 25114840 PMCID In Process
• Klionsky, D.J. and Thorburn, A. (2014) “Clinical research and Autophagy.” Autophagy. 10, 1357-1358. PMID:24991837
• Gump, J.M., and Thorburn, A. (2014) “Sorting cells for basal and induced autophagic flux by quantitative ratiometric flow cytometry”. Autophagy. 10, 1327-1334. PMID:24915460 PMCID: In Process
• Morgan, M.J., Gamez, G., Menke, C., Hernandez, A., Thorburn, J., Gidan, F., Staskiewicz, L., Morgan, S., Cummings, C., Maycotte, P., and Thorburn, A. (2014). “Regulation of autophagy and chloroquine sensitivity by oncogenic Ras in vitro is context-dependent.” Autophagy 10, 1814-1826. PMID:25136801
• Goodall, M. and Thorburn, A. (2014) “Identifying specific receptors for cargo-mediated autophagy.” Cell Research. 24, 783-784. PMID: 24797431
• Qiang, L., Zhao, B., Ming, M., Wang, N., He, T.C., Hwang, S., Thorburn, A., He, Y.Y. (2014) “Regulation of cell proliferation and migration by p62 through stabilization of Twist.” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 111, 9241-9246 PMID: 24927592
• Thorburn, A. (2014) “Autophagy and its effects: making sense of double-edged swords.” Plos Biology 12, e1001967 doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001967 PMID:25313680
• Mulcahy-Levy, J., Foreman, N.K. and Thorburn, A. (2014) “Using BRAFV600E as a marker of autophagy dependence in pediatric brain tumors.” Autophagy 10, 2077-2078
• Koo GB, Morgan MJ, Lee DG, Kim WJ, Yoon JH, Koo JS, Kim SI, Kim SJ, Son MK, Hong SS, Levy JM, Pollyea DA, Jordan CT, Yan P, Frankhouser D, Nicolet D, Maharry K, Marcucci G, Choi KS, Cho H, Thorburn A, Kim YS. Methylation-dependent loss of RIP3 expression in cancer represses programmed necrosis in response to chemotherapeutics. Cell Res. 2015 Jun;25(6):707-25. PubMed PMID: 25952668
• Yonekawa T, Gamez G, Kim J, Tan AC, Thorburn J, Gump J, Thorburn A, Morgan MJ. RIP1 negatively regulates basal autophagic flux through TFEB to control sensitivity to apoptosis. EMBO Rep. 2015 Jun;16(6):700-8. PubMed PMID: 25908842
• Dimberg L, Towers CG, Behbakht K, Hotz T, Kim J, Fosmire SP, Porter CC, Tan AC, Thorburn A, Ford HL. A genome-wide loss-of-function screen identifies SLC26A2 as a novel mediator of TRAIL resistance. Mol Cancer Res. 2017 Jan 20. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 28108622
• Mulcahy Levy JM, Zahedi S, Griesinger AM, Morin A, Davies KD, Aisner DL, Kleinschmidt-DeMasters BK, Fitzwalter BE, Goodall ML, Thorburn J, Amani V, Donson AM, Birks DK, Mirsky DM, Hankinson TC, Handler MH, Green AL, Vibhakar R, Foreman NK, Thorburn A. Autophagy inhibition overcomes multiple mechanisms of resistance to BRAF inhibition in brain tumors. Elife. 2017 Jan 17;6. PubMed PMID: 28094001
• Thorburn A, Morgan MJ. Targeting Autophagy in BRAF-Mutant Tumors. Cancer Discov. 2015 Apr;5(4):353-4. PubMed PMID: 25847956
• Towers CG, Thorburn A. Therapeutic Targeting of Autophagy. EBioMedicine. 2016 Oct 23. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 28029600
• Thorburn J, Staskiewicz L, Goodall ML, Dimberg L, Frankel AE, Ford HL, Thorburn A. Non-cell-autonomous Effects of Autophagy Inhibition in Tumor Cells Promote Growth of Drug-resistant Cells. Mol Pharmacol. 2017 Jan;91(1):58-64. PubMed PMID: 27974637
• Cheong JK, Zhang F, Chua PJ, Bay BH, Thorburn A, Virshup DM. Casein kinase 1a-dependent feedback loop controls autophagy in RAS-driven cancers. J Clin Invest. 2015 Apr;125(4):1401-18. PubMed PMID: 25798617
• Galluzzi L, Pietrocola F, Bravo-San Pedro JM, Amaravadi RK, Baehrecke EH, Cecconi F, Codogno P, Debnath J, Gewirtz DA, Karantza V, Kimmelman A, Kumar S, Levine B, Maiuri MC, Martin SJ, Penninger J, Piacentini M, Rubinsztein DC, Simon HU, Simonsen A, Thorburn AM, Velasco G, Ryan KM, Kroemer G. Autophagy in malignant transformation and cancer progression. EMBO J. 2015 Apr 1;34(7):856-80. PubMed PMID: 25712477
• Goodall ML, Cramer SD, Thorburn A. Autophagy RIPs into cell death. Cell Cycle. 2016 Nov 16;15(22):3014-3015. PubMed PMID: 27574850
• Goodall ML, Cramer SD, Thorburn A. Autophagy complexes cell death by necroptosis. Oncotarget. 2016 Aug 9;7(32):50818-50819. PubMed PMID: 27449298
• Morgan MJ, Thorburn A. Measuring Autophagy in the Context of Cancer. Adv Exp Med Biol. 2016;899:121-43. PubMed PMID: 27325265
• Barnard RA, Regan DP, Hansen RJ, Maycotte P, Thorburn A, Gustafson DL. Autophagy Inhibition Delays Early but Not Late-Stage Metastatic Disease. J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 2016 Aug;358(2):282-93. PubMed PMID: 27231155
• Goodall ML, Fitzwalter BE, Zahedi S, Wu M, Rodriguez D, Mulcahy-Levy JM, Green DR, Morgan M, Cramer SD, Thorburn A. The Autophagy Machinery Controls Cell Death Switching between Apoptosis and Necroptosis. Dev Cell. 2016 May 23;37(4):337-49. PubMed PMID: 27219062
• Klionsky DJ, Abdelmohsen K, Abe A, Abedin MJ, Abeliovich H, Acevedo Arozena A, Adachi H, Adams CM, Adams PD, Adeli K, Adhihetty PJ, Adler SG, Agam G, Agarwal R, Aghi MK, Agnello M, Agostinis P, Aguilar PV, Aguirre-Ghiso J, Airoldi EM, Ait-Si-Ali S, Akematsu T, Akporiaye ET, Al-Rubeai M, Albaiceta GM, Albanese C, Albani D, Albert ML, Aldudo J, Algül H, Alirezaei M, Alloza I, Almasan A, Almonte-Beceril M, Alnemri ES, Alonso C, Altan-Bonnet N, Altieri DC, Alvarez S, Alvarez-Erviti L, Alves S, Amadoro G, Amano A, Amantini C, Ambrosio S, Amelio I, Amer AO, Amessou M, Amon A, An Z, Anania FA, Andersen SU, Andley UP, Andreadi CK, Andrieu-Abadie N, Anel A, Ann DK, Anoopkumar-Dukie S, Antonioli M, Aoki H, Apostolova N, Aquila S, Aquilano K, Araki K, Arama E, Aranda A, Araya J, Arcaro A, Arias E, Arimoto H, Ariosa AR, Armstrong JL, Arnould T, Arsov I, Asanuma K, Askanas V, Asselin E, Atarashi R, Atherton SS, Atkin JD, Attardi LD, Auberger P, Auburger G, Aurelian L, Autelli R, Avagliano L, Avantaggiati ML, Avrahami L, Awale S, Azad N, Bachetti T, Backer JM, Bae DH, Bae JS, Bae ON, Bae SH, Baehrecke EH, Baek SH, Baghdiguian S, Bagniewska-Zadworna A, Bai H, Bai J, Bai XY, Bailly Y, Balaji KN, Balduini W, Ballabio A, Balzan R, Banerjee R, Bánhegyi G, Bao H, Barbeau B, Barrachina MD, Barreiro E, Bartel B, Bartolomé A, Bassham DC, Bassi MT, Bast RC Jr, Basu A, Batista MT, Batoko H, Battino M, Bauckman K, Baumgarner BL, Bayer KU, Beale R, Beaulieu JF, Beck GR Jr, Becker C, Beckham JD, Bédard PA, Bednarski PJ, Begley TJ, Behl C, Behrends C, Behrens GM, Behrns KE, Bejarano E, Belaid A, Belleudi F, Bénard G, Berchem G, Bergamaschi D, Bergami M, Berkhout B, Berliocchi L, Bernard A, Bernard M, Bernassola F, Bertolotti A, Bess AS, Besteiro S, Bettuzzi S, Bhalla S, Bhattacharyya S, Bhutia SK, Biagosch C, Bianchi MW, Biard-Piechaczyk M, Billes V, Bincoletto C, Bingol B, Bird SW, Bitoun M, Bjedov I, Blackstone C, Blanc L, Blanco GA, Blomhoff HK, Boada-Romero E, Böckler S, Boes M, Boesze... Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition). Autophagy. 2016;12(1):1-222. PubMed PMID: 26799652
• Maycotte P, Jones KL, Goodall ML, Thorburn J, Thorburn A. Autophagy Supports Breast Cancer Stem Cell Maintenance by Regulating IL6 Secretion. Mol Cancer Res. 2015 Apr;13(4):651-8. PubMed PMID: 25573951
• E Fitzwalter B, Thorburn A. Recent insights into cell death and autophagy. FEBS J. 2015 Sep 14. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26367268
• Thorburn A. Autophagy and Disease. J Biol Chem. 2017 Nov 30. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29191833
• Towers CG, Thorburn A. Targeting the Lysosome for Cancer Therapy. Cancer Discov. 2017 Nov;7(11):1218-1220. PubMed PMID: 29097619
• Fitzwalter BE, Thorburn A. A caspase-independent way to kill cancer cells. Nat Cell Biol. 2017 Aug 31;19(9):1014-1015. PubMed PMID: 28855734
• Levy JMM, Towers CG, Thorburn A. Targeting autophagy in cancer. Nat Rev Cancer. 2017 Sep;17(9):528-542. PubMed PMID: 28751651
• Dimberg LY, Towers CG, Behbakht K, Hotz TJ, Kim J, Fosmire S, Porter CC, Tan AC, Thorburn A, Ford HL. A Genome-Wide Loss-of-Function Screen Identifies SLC26A2 as a Novel Mediator of TRAIL Resistance. Mol Cancer Res. 2017 Apr;15(4):382-394. PubMed PMID: 28108622
• Zhang Y, Mun SR, Linares JF, Towers CG, Thorburn A, Diaz-Meco MT, Kwon YT, Kutateladze TG. Mechanistic insight into the regulation of SQSTM1/p62. Autophagy. 2019 Jan 22;:1-3. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 30653391
• Zhang Y, Mun SR, Linares JF, Ahn J, Towers CG, Ji CH, Fitzwalter BE, Holden MR, Mi W, Shi X, Moscat J, Thorburn A, Diaz-Meco MT, Kwon YT, Kutateladze TG. ZZ-dependent regulation of p62/SQSTM1 in autophagy. Nat Commun. 2018 Oct 22;9(1):4373. PubMed PMID: 30349045
• Mulcahy Levy JM, Zahedi S, Griesinger AM, Morin A, Davies KD, Aisner DL, Kleinschmidt-DeMasters BK, Fitzwalter BE, Goodall ML, Thorburn J, Amani V, Donson AM, Birks DK, Mirsky DM, Hankinson TC, Handler MH, Green AL, Vibhakar R, Foreman NK, Thorburn A. Autophagy inhibition overcomes multiple mechanisms of resistance to BRAF inhibition in brain tumors. Elife. 2017 Jan 17;6. PubMed PMID: 28094001
• Morgan MJ, Fitzwalter BE, Owens CR, Powers RK, Sottnik JL, Gamez G, Costello JC, Theodorescu D, Thorburn A. Metastatic cells are preferentially vulnerable to lysosomal inhibition. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Sep 4;115(36):E8479-E8488. PubMed PMID: 30127018
• Scott AJ, Arcaroli JJ, Bagby SM, Yahn R, Huber KM, Serkova NJ, Nguyen A, Kim J, Thorburn A, Vogel J, Quackenbush KS, Capasso A, Schreiber A, Blatchford P, Klauck PJ, Pitts TM, Eckhardt SG, Messersmith WA. Cabozantinib Exhibits Potent Antitumor Activity in Colorectal Cancer Patient-Derived Tumor Xenograft Models via Autophagy and Signaling Mechanisms. Mol Cancer Ther. 2018 Oct;17(10):2112-2122. PubMed PMID: 30026382
• Thorburn J, Staskiewicz L, Goodall ML, Dimberg L, Frankel AE, Ford HL, Thorburn A. Non-cell-autonomous Effects of Autophagy Inhibition in Tumor Cells Promote Growth of Drug-resistant Cells. Mol Pharmacol. 2017 Jan;91(1):58-64. PubMed PMID: 27974637
• Fitzwalter BE, Thorburn A. FOXO3 links autophagy to apoptosis. Autophagy. 2018;14(8):1467-1468. PubMed PMID: 29938591
• Fitzwalter BE, Thorburn A. Autophagy inhibition improves anti-cancer drugs via FOXO3a activation. Oncotarget. 2018 May 22;9(39):25384-25385. PubMed PMID: 29875995
• Bamberg A, Redente EF, Groshong SD, Tuder RM, Cool CD, Keith RC, Edelman BL, Black BP, Cosgrove GP, Wynes MW, Curran-Everett D, De Langhe S, Ortiz LA, Thorburn A, Riches DWH. Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase-N13 Promotes Myofibroblast Resistance to Apoptosis in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2018 Oct 1;198(7):914-927. PubMed PMID: 29727583
• Fitzwalter BE, Towers CG, Sullivan KD, Andrysik Z, Hoh M, Ludwig M, O'Prey J, Ryan KM, Espinosa JM, Morgan MJ, Thorburn A. Autophagy Inhibition Mediates Apoptosis Sensitization in Cancer Therapy by Relieving FOXO3a Turnover. Dev Cell. 2018 Mar 12;44(5):555-565.e3. PubMed PMID: 29533771
• Galluzzi L, Vitale I, Aaronson SA, Abrams JM, Adam D, Agostinis P, Alnemri ES, Altucci L, Amelio I, Andrews DW, Annicchiarico-Petruzzelli M, Antonov AV, Arama E, Baehrecke EH, Barlev NA, Bazan NG, Bernassola F, Bertrand MJM, Bianchi K, Blagosklonny MV, Blomgren K, Borner C, Boya P, Brenner C, Campanella M, Candi E, Carmona-Gutierrez D, Cecconi F, Chan FK, Chandel NS, Cheng EH, Chipuk JE, Cidlowski JA, Ciechanover A, Cohen GM, Conrad M, Cubillos-Ruiz JR, Czabotar PE, D'Angiolella V, Dawson TM, Dawson VL, De Laurenzi V, De Maria R, Debatin KM, DeBerardinis RJ, Deshmukh M, Di Daniele N, Di Virgilio F, Dixit VM, Dixon SJ, Duckett CS, Dynlacht BD, El-Deiry WS, Elrod JW, Fimia GM, Fulda S, García-Sáez AJ, Garg AD, Garrido C, Gavathiotis E, Golstein P, Gottlieb E, Green DR, Greene LA, Gronemeyer H, Gross A, Hajnoczky G, Hardwick JM, Harris IS, Hengartner MO, Hetz C, Ichijo H, Jäättelä M, Joseph B, Jost PJ, Juin PP, Kaiser WJ, Karin M, Kaufmann T, Kepp O, Kimchi A, Kitsis RN, Klionsky DJ, Knight RA, Kumar S, Lee SW, Lemasters JJ, Levine B, Linkermann A, Lipton SA, Lockshin RA, López-Otín C, Lowe SW, Luedde T, Lugli E, MacFarlane M, Madeo F, Malewicz M, Malorni W, Manic G, Marine JC, Martin SJ, Martinou JC, Medema JP, Mehlen P, Meier P, Melino S, Miao EA, Molkentin JD, Moll UM, Muñoz-Pinedo C, Nagata S, Nuñez G, Oberst A, Oren M, Overholtzer M, Pagano M, Panaretakis T, Pasparakis M, Penninger JM, Pereira DM, Pervaiz S, Peter ME, Piacentini M, Pinton P, Prehn JHM, Puthalakath H, Rabinovich GA, Rehm M, Rizzuto R, Rodrigues CMP, Rubinsztein DC, Rudel T, Ryan KM, Sayan E, Scorrano L, Shao F, Shi Y, Silke J, Simon HU, Sistigu A, Stockwell BR, Strasser A, Szabadkai G, Tait SWG, Tang D, Tavernarakis N, Thorburn A, Tsujimoto Y, Turk B, Vanden Berghe T, Vandenabeele P, Vander Heiden MG, Villunger A, Virgin HW, Vousden KH, Vucic D, Wagner EF, Walczak H, Wallach D, Wang Y, Wells JA, Wood W, Yuan J, Zakeri Z, Zhivotovsky B, Zitvogel L, Melino G, Kroemer G. Molecular mechanisms of cell death: recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death 2018. Cell Death Differ. 2018 Mar;25(3):486-541. PubMed PMID: 29362479
• Thorburn A. Autophagy and disease. J Biol Chem. 2018 Apr 13;293(15):5425-5430. PubMed PMID: 29191833
• Tompkins KD, Thorburn A. Regulation of Apoptosis by Autophagy to Enhance Cancer Therapy. Yale J Biol Med. 2019 Dec;92(4):707-718. PubMed PMID: 31866785
• Mulcahy Levy JM, Thorburn A. Autophagy in cancer: moving from understanding mechanism to improving therapy responses in patients. Cell Death Differ. 2019 Dec 13. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31836831
• Towers CG, Wodetzki D, Thorburn A. Autophagy and cancer: Modulation of cell death pathways and cancer cell adaptations. J Cell Biol. 2020 Jan 6;219(1). PubMed PMID: 31753861
• Towers CG, Thorburn A. Circumventing autophagy inhibition. Cell Cycle. 2019 Dec;18(24):3421-3431. PubMed PMID: 31736401
• Atwood DJ, Brown CN, Holditch SJ, Pokhrel D, Thorburn A, Hopp K, Edelstein CL. The effect of trehalose on autophagy-related proteins and cyst growth in a hypomorphic Pkd1 mouse model of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. Cell Signal. 2020 Nov;75:109760. PubMed PMID: 32866627
• Thorburn A. A new mechanism for autophagy regulation of anti-tumor immune responses. Autophagy. 2020 Dec;16(12):2282-2284. PubMed PMID: 32866428
• Towers CG, Fitzwalter BE, Regan D, Goodspeed A, Morgan MJ, Liu CW, Gustafson DL, Thorburn A. Cancer Cells Upregulate NRF2 Signaling to Adapt to Autophagy Inhibition. Dev Cell. 2019 Sep 23;50(6):690-703.e6. PubMed PMID: 31378590
• Atwood DJ, Pokhrel D, Brown CN, Holditch SJ, Bachu DM, Thorburn A, Hopp K, Edelstein CL. Increased mTOR and suppressed autophagic flux in the heart of a hypomorphic Pkd1 mouse model of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. Cell Signal. 2020 Oct;74:109730. PubMed PMID: 32730856
• Thorburn A. Crosstalk between autophagy and apoptosis: Mechanisms and therapeutic implications. Prog Mol Biol Transl Sci. 2020;172:55-65. PubMed PMID: 32620250
• Opat S, Dickinson M, Cheah CY, Tam C, Boulos J, Thorburn AN, Trotman J. Management of patients with follicular lymphoma treated first line with obinutuzumab. Asia Pac J Clin Oncol. 2019 May;15 Suppl 3:3-11. PubMed PMID: 31058467
• Miller DR, Cramer SD, Thorburn A. The interplay of autophagy and non-apoptotic cell death pathways. Int Rev Cell Mol Biol. 2020;352:159-187. PubMed PMID: 32334815
• Zhang Y, Mun SR, Linares JF, Towers CG, Thorburn A, Diaz-Meco MT, Kwon YT, Kutateladze TG. Mechanistic insight into the regulation of SQSTM1/p62. Autophagy. 2019 Apr;15(4):735-737. PubMed PMID: 30653391
• Towers CG, Wodetzki D, Thorburn A. Autophagy-dependent cancer cells circumvent loss of the upstream regulator RB1CC1/FIP200 and loss of LC3 conjugation by similar mechanisms. Autophagy. 2020 Jul;16(7):1332-1340. PubMed PMID: 32160093
• Mulcahy Levy JM, Thorburn A. Autophagy in cancer: moving from understanding mechanism to improving therapy responses in patients. Cell Death Differ. 2020 Mar;27(3):843-857. PubMed PMID: 31836831
• Towers CG, Wodetzki D, Thorburn A. Autophagy and cancer: Modulation of cell death pathways and cancer cell adaptations. J Cell Biol. 2020 Jan 6;219(1). PubMed PMID: 31753861
• Towers CG, Wodetzki DK, Thorburn J, Smith KR, Caino MC, Thorburn A. Mitochondrial-derived vesicles compensate for loss of LC3-mediated mitophagy. Dev Cell. 2021 Jul 26;56(14):2029-2042.e5. PubMed PMID: 34171288
• Miller DR, Thorburn A. Autophagy and organelle homeostasis in cancer. Dev Cell. 2021 Apr 5;56(7):906-918. PubMed PMID: 33689692
• Brown CN, Atwood D, Pokhrel D, Holditch SJ, Altmann C, Skrypnyk NI, Bourne J, Klawitter J, Blaine J, Faubel S, Thorburn A, Edelstein CL. Surgical procedures suppress autophagic flux in the kidney. Cell Death Dis. 2021 Mar 5;12(3):248. PubMed PMID: 33674554
• Klionsky DJ, Abdel-Aziz AK, Abdelfatah S, Abdellatif M, Abdoli A, Abel S, Abeliovich H, Abildgaard MH, Abudu YP, Acevedo-Arozena A, Adamopoulos IE, Adeli K, Adolph TE, Adornetto A, Aflaki E, Agam G, Agarwal A, Aggarwal BB, Agnello M, Agostinis P, Agrewala JN, Agrotis A, Aguilar PV, Ahmad ST, Ahmed ZM, Ahumada-Castro U, Aits S, Aizawa S, Akkoc Y, Akoumianaki T, Akpinar HA, Al-Abd AM, Al-Akra L, Al-Gharaibeh A, Alaoui-Jamali MA, Alberti S, Alcocer-Gómez E, Alessandri C, Ali M, Alim Al-Bari MA, Aliwaini S, Alizadeh J, Almacellas E, Almasan A, Alonso A, Alonso GD, Altan-Bonnet N, Altieri DC, Álvarez ÉMC, Alves S, Alves da Costa C, Alzaharna MM, Amadio M, Amantini C, Amaral C, Ambrosio S, Amer AO, Ammanathan V, An Z, Andersen SU, Andrabi SA, Andrade-Silva M, Andres AM, Angelini S, Ann D, Anozie UC, Ansari MY, Antas P, Antebi A, Antón Z, Anwar T, Apetoh L, Apostolova N, Araki T, Araki Y, Arasaki K, Araújo WL, Araya J, Arden C, Arévalo MA, Arguelles S, Arias E, Arikkath J, Arimoto H, Ariosa AR, Armstrong-James D, Arnauné-Pelloquin L, Aroca A, Arroyo DS, Arsov I, Artero R, Asaro DML, Aschner M, Ashrafizadeh M, Ashur-Fabian O, Atanasov AG, Au AK, Auberger P, Auner HW, Aurelian L, Autelli R, Avagliano L, Ávalos Y, Aveic S, Aveleira CA, Avin-Wittenberg T, Aydin Y, Ayton S, Ayyadevara S, Azzopardi M, Baba M, Backer JM, Backues SK, Bae DH, Bae ON, Bae SH, Baehrecke EH, Baek A, Baek SH, Baek SH, Bagetta G, Bagniewska-Zadworna A, Bai H, Bai J, Bai X, Bai Y, Bairagi N, Baksi S, Balbi T, Baldari CT, Balduini W, Ballabio A, Ballester M, Balazadeh S, Balzan R, Bandopadhyay R, Banerjee S, Banerjee S, Bánréti Á, Bao Y, Baptista MS, Baracca A, Barbati C, Bargiela A, Barilà D, Barlow PG, Barmada SJ, Barreiro E, Barreto GE, Bartek J, Bartel B, Bartolome A, Barve GR, Basagoudanavar SH, Bassham DC, Bast RC Jr, Basu A, Batoko H, Batten I, Baulieu EE, Baumgarner BL, Bayry J, Beale R, Beau I, Beaumatin F, Bechara LRG, Beck GR Jr, Beers MF, Begun J, Behrends C, Behrens GMN, Bei R, Bejarano ... Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)(1). Autophagy. 2021 Jan;17(1):1-382. PubMed PMID: 33634751
• Atwood DJ, Brown CN, Holditch SJ, Pokhrel D, Thorburn A, Hopp K, Edelstein CL. The effect of trehalose on autophagy-related proteins and cyst growth in a hypomorphic Pkd1 mouse model of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. Cell Signal. 2020 Nov;75:109760. PubMed PMID: 32866627
• Thorburn A. A new mechanism for autophagy regulation of anti-tumor immune responses. Autophagy. 2020 Dec;16(12):2282-2284. PubMed PMID: 32866428
• Atwood DJ, Pokhrel D, Brown CN, Holditch SJ, Bachu DM, Thorburn A, Hopp K, Edelstein CL. Increased mTOR and suppressed autophagic flux in the heart of a hypomorphic Pkd1 mouse model of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. Cell Signal. 2020 Oct;74:109730. PubMed PMID: 32730856
• Thorburn A. Crosstalk between autophagy and apoptosis: Mechanisms and therapeutic implications. Prog Mol Biol Transl Sci. 2020;172:55-65. PubMed PMID: 32620250
• Miller DR, Cramer SD, Thorburn A. The interplay of autophagy and non-apoptotic cell death pathways. Int Rev Cell Mol Biol. 2020;352:159-187. PubMed PMID: 32334815
• Towers CG, Wodetzki D, Thorburn A. Autophagy-dependent cancer cells circumvent loss of the upstream regulator RB1CC1/FIP200 and loss of LC3 conjugation by similar mechanisms. Autophagy. 2020 Jul;16(7):1332-1340. PubMed PMID: 32160093
• Mulcahy Levy JM, Thorburn A. Autophagy in cancer: moving from understanding mechanism to improving therapy responses in patients. Cell Death Differ. 2020 Mar;27(3):843-857. PubMed PMID: 31836831
• Towers CG, Wodetzki D, Thorburn A. Autophagy and cancer: Modulation of cell death pathways and cancer cell adaptations. J Cell Biol. 2020 Jan 6;219(1). PubMed PMID: 31753861