title: GTP: gatekeeper for autophagy.
abstract: Chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA) is involved in cellular quality control, and in the response to stress, deterioration in CMA contributes to the aging phenotype and to various disorders. The paper by Bandyopadhyay et al. in this issue of Molecular Cell demonstrates the role of GTP binding by elongation factor 1 alpha (EF1alpha) in regulating the lysosomal uptake of CMA substrates.
authors.affiliation: INSERM UMR984, Université Paris-Sud 11, Faculté de Pharmacie, 5 rue Jean-Baptiste Clément, 92296 Châtenay-Malabry, France.
authors.forename: Isabelle
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Beau
authors.forename: Patrice
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Codogno