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In addition to generating N-degron-carrying substrates destined for proteolysis, N-terminal arginylation can globally upregulate selective macroautophagy via activation of the autophagic N-recognin and archetypal autophagy cargo receptor p62/SQSTM1/sequestosome-1. To evaluate the macroautophagic turnover of cellular substrates, including protein aggregates (aggrephagy) and subcellular organelles (organellophagy) mediated by N-terminal arginylation in vivo, we report here a protocol for assaying the activation of the autophagic Arg/N-degron pathway and degradation of cellular cargoes via N-terminal arginylation. These methods, reagents, and conditions are applicable across a wide spectrum of different cell lines, primary cultures, and/or animal tissues, thereby providing a general means for identification and validation of putative cellular cargoes degraded by Nt-arginylation-activated selective autophagy.
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