Elena Makareeva

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a set of guidelines for investigators to select and interpret methods to examine autophagy and related processes, and for reviewers to provide realistic and reasonable critiques of reports that are focused on these processes.

TL;DR: The first five cases of a new recessive bone disorder resulting from null LEPRE1 alleles are presented; its phenotype overlaps with lethal/severe osteogenesis imperfecta but has distinctive features and a mutant allele from West Africa occurs in four of five cases.

TL;DR: Three of 10 children with lethal or severe osteogenesis imperfecta were found to have a recessive condition resulting in CRTAP deficiency, suggesting that prolyl 3-hydroxylation of type I collagen is important for bone formation.

TL;DR: The finding that homozygous and heterozygous variants in WNT1 predispose to low-bone-mass phenotypes might advance the development of more effective therapeutic strategies for congenital forms of bone fragility, as well as for common forms of age-related osteoporosis.

TL;DR: The proband's collagen had normal collagen folding and normal prolyl 3-hydroxylation, suggesting that CyPB is not the exclusive peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerase that catalyzes the rate-limiting step in collagen folding, as is currently thought.