The autophagy-lysosomal pathway

Neurons, like other eukaryotic cells, utilize 2 major pathways for turning over dysfunctional proteins or organelles. One of them is the ubiquitin-proteasome system, which degrades short-lived proteins in the cytoplasm and nucleus and involves the covalent binding of ubiquitin molecules to the targeted protein, followed by its degradation by the proteasome. The second is the autophagy-lysosome pat…