Autophagy is attracting growing interest, especially in relation to increasing evidence of the importance of autophagic processes in animal development, as well as in human cancer progression. In holometabolous insects (i.e., that undergo four distinct life cycle stages, including embryo, larva, pupa and imago), such as flies, butterflies, bees and beetles, autophagy has been found to play a fundamental role in metamorphosis, and given the high degree of conservation of the genes and the basic mechanisms of autophagy, attention to these relatively simple models has increased significantly. Together with Drosophila, Lepidoptera larvae are among the most common invertebrate models in studies concerning the protective action of starvation-induced autophagy or the possible role of autophagy as a programmed cell death process. In this chapter, we provide experimental methods developed for, or applicable to, the study of the autophagic process in the IPLB-LdFB cell line derived from the fat body of the caterpillar of the gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar.

In vitro methods to monitor autophagy in Lepidoptera / Tettamanti, G; Malagoli, Davide. - STAMPA. - 451:C(2008), pp. 685-709. [10.1016/S0076-6879(08)03238-2]

In vitro methods to monitor autophagy in Lepidoptera.

MALAGOLI, Davide
2008

Abstract

Autophagy is attracting growing interest, especially in relation to increasing evidence of the importance of autophagic processes in animal development, as well as in human cancer progression. In holometabolous insects (i.e., that undergo four distinct life cycle stages, including embryo, larva, pupa and imago), such as flies, butterflies, bees and beetles, autophagy has been found to play a fundamental role in metamorphosis, and given the high degree of conservation of the genes and the basic mechanisms of autophagy, attention to these relatively simple models has increased significantly. Together with Drosophila, Lepidoptera larvae are among the most common invertebrate models in studies concerning the protective action of starvation-induced autophagy or the possible role of autophagy as a programmed cell death process. In this chapter, we provide experimental methods developed for, or applicable to, the study of the autophagic process in the IPLB-LdFB cell line derived from the fat body of the caterpillar of the gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar.
2008
AUTOPHAGY: LOWER EUKARYOTES AND NON-MAMMALIAN SYSTEMS, PT A
978-0-12-374548-4
ELSEVIER ACADEMIC PRESS INC
STATI UNITI D'AMERICA
In vitro methods to monitor autophagy in Lepidoptera / Tettamanti, G; Malagoli, Davide. - STAMPA. - 451:C(2008), pp. 685-709. [10.1016/S0076-6879(08)03238-2]
Tettamanti, G; Malagoli, Davide
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