ERC Consolidator Grant · 2025
Shaping the transcriptome through autophagy
In the face of environmental stress, autophagy plays a crucial role in stress adaptation through the maintenance of cellular homeostasis. While extensively studied for its ability to degrade proteins, pathogens, and organelles, the potential of autophagy to degrade RNA remains largely unexplored. Recent findings from my team uniquely reveal that specific subsets of RNA are selectively sequestered and degraded by autophagy in a stress-responsive manner. However, the molecular mechanisms driving this process and its biological implications remain unknown. Based on our preliminary results, I hypothesize that autophagy represents a previously unrecognized, highly regulated RNA decay pathway…
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