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2024


Cabral-Miranda F., Hetz C. (2024). Preventing brain aging by the artificial enforcement of the unfolded protein response: future directions. Neural Regen Res. 19(2):393-394.


2023


Duran-Aniotz C., Rivera-Krstulovic1 C., Poblete N., ArdilesA., Li Díaz M., Tamburini G., Mae Sabusap C, Gerakis Y., Cabral Miranda F., Diaz J, Fuentealba M., Muñoz E., Espinoza S., Martinez G., Quiroz G., Medinas D., Contreras  D., Piña R., Lourenco M., Ribeiro F., Ferreira S., Rozas C., Morales B., Plate L., Gonzalez-Billault C., Palacios A., and Hetz C. (2023). The unfolded protein response transcription factor XBP1s ameliorates Alzheimer’s disease by improving synaptic function and proteostasis. Mol Ther. S1525-0016(23)00161-2. #*

Tshilenge KT, Aguirre CG, Bons J, Gerencser AA, Basisty N, Song S, Rose J, Lopez-Ramirez A, Naphade S, Loureiro A, Battistoni E, Milani M, Wehrfritz C, Holtz A, Hetz C. Mooney SD, Schilling B, Ellerby LM (2023). Proteomic Analysis of Huntington’s Disease Medium Spiny Neurons Identifies Alterations in Lipid Droplets. Mol Cell Proteomics. 22(5):100534. doi: 10.1016/j.mcpro.2023.100534.

Carreras-sureda A.,  Zhang X., Laubry L., Brunnetti J., Konig S., Wang X., Castelbou C., Hetz C.., Liu Y., Frieden M., Demaurex N.  (2023). The ER stress sensor IRE1 interacts with STIM1 to promote store-operated calcium entry, T cell activation, and muscular differentiation. Cell Rep. 26;42(12):113540.

Martinez A., Lamaizon C.M, Valls C., Llambi F., Leal N., Fitzgerald P., Guy C., Kaminski M., Inestrosa NC., Van Zundert B., Cancino GI., Dulcey Garcia A.,  Marugan JJ., Hetz C., Green DR., Álvarez Rojas A (2023). c-Abl phosphorylates MFN2 to regulate mitochondrial morphology in cells under endoplasmic reticulum and oxidative stress, impacting cell survival and neurodegeneration. Antioxidants (Basel). 16;12(11):2007.

Borgonovo J., Allende-Castro C., Medinas D., Cárdenas D., Cuevas MP., Hetz C., Concha M (2023). Immunohistochemical characterisation of the adult Nothobranchius furzeri intestineCell Tissue Res. Doi: 10.1007/s00441-023-03845-8.

Arcos J., Grunenwald F., Sepulveda D., Jerez C., Urbina V., Huerta T., Troncoso-Escudero P., Tirado D., Perez A., Diaz-Espinoza R., Nova E., Kubitscheck, U., Rodriguez-Gatica JE., Hetz C., Toledo J., Ahumada P., Rojas D., Martín-Montañez E., and Garcia-Fernandez M, and Vidal R.,. (2023). IGF2 prevents dopaminergic neuronal loss and decreases intracellular alpha-synuclein accumulation in Parkinson’s disease models. Cell Death Discov. 9(1):438. 

Fernández-Gajardo R., Urra H., Saéz M., Pihán P., Fonseca B., Sanchez-Doñas C., Ali M., Rouse SL., Cavada G., Tissera C., Melo R., Rojas D., Matamala JM., and Hetz C. (2023). Characterization of the mutational landscape of high-grade gliomas in a Latin American cohort. Preprint.


2022


Cabral-Miranda F, Tamburini G., Martinez G., Ardiles A., Medina, D., Gerakis Y., Diaz-Hung ML., Vidal R., Fuentealba M., Miedema T., Duran-Aniotz C., Diaz J., Ibaceta-Gonzalez C., Sabusap C., Bermedo-Garcia F., Covarrubias P., Adamson S., Vitangcol K., Huerta H., Zhang X., Nakamura T., Sardi S., Lipton S., Kenedy BK., Henriquez JP., Cárdenas JC., Plate L., Palacios A.Hetz C. (2022). Control of mammalian brain ageing by the unfolded protein response transcription factor XBP1. EMBO J. 41(22):e111952. #*

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Medinas DB., S Malik, Yildiz-Bölükba E., J Borgonovo, M J. Saaranen, H Urra, E Pulgar, M Afzal, D Contreras, M T. Wright, F Bodaleo, G Quiroz, P Rozas, S Mumtaz, R Díaz, C Rozas, F Cabral-Miranda, R Piña, V Valenzuela, O Uyan, C Reardon, U Woehlbier, R H. Brown, M Sena-Esteves, C Gonzalez-Billault, Bernardo Morales, L Plate, L W. Ruddock, M L. Concha, Hetz C.  and A Tolun. (2022). Mutant PDIA3 causes neurodevelopmental impairment by disturbing endoplasmic reticulum proteostasis. EMBO J.41(2): e105531. #*

Moraga P., Aravena R., Urra H., and Hetz C. (2022) Assays to Study IRE1 Activation and Signaling. Methods Mol Biol, vol. 2378; 141-168. #*

Papaioannou A, Centonze F, Metais A, Maurel M, Negroni L, Gonzalez-Quiroz M, Mahdizadeh SJ, Svensson G, Zare E, Blondel A, Koong AC, Hetz C., Delporte C. (2022). Stress-induced tyrosine phosphorylation of RtcB modulates IRE1 activity and signaling outputs. Life Sci Alliance5(5): e202201379.

 

Carreras-Sureda A., Kroemer G., Cardenas JC., Hetz C. (2022) Balancing energy and protein homeostasis at ER-mitochondria contact sites. Sci Signal. 15(741):eabm7524. #*

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2021


Hetz C. (2021). Adapting the proteostasis capacity to sustain brain healthspan. Cell. S0092-8674(21)00157-4. #*

Pihán P., Lisbona F., Borgonovo J., Edwards-Jorquera S., Nunes-Hasler , Castillo K., Kepp O., Urra H., Saarnio S., Vihinen H., Carreras-Sureda A., Forveille S., Sauvat A., De Giorgis D., Pupo A., Rodríguez DA., Quarato G., Sagredo A., Lourido F., Letai A., Latorre R., Kroemer G., Demaurex N., Jokitalo E., Concha ML., Glavic A., R. Green D., and Hetz C. (2021) Control of lysosomal-mediated cell death by the pH-dependent calcium channel RECS1. Science Advances. 7(46): eabe5469.  doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abe5469. #*

Torres P., Cabral-Miranda F., Gonzalez J. and Hetz C. (2021). Proteostasis deregulation as a driver of C9ORF72 pathogenesis. J. neurochem. 159(6):941-957.#*

Deng J., Gutierrez L., Stoll G., Garcia-Miguel O., Martins I., Nuñez L., Bravo-San Pedro JM., Humeau J., Bordenave C., Pan J., Fohrer-Ting H., Souquere S., Pierron G., Hetz C., Villalobos C., Kroemer G., and Senovilla L. (2021) Paradoxical implication of BAX/BAK in the persistence of tetraploid cells. Cell Death Dis. 12(11):1039.#*

Pérez-Arancibia R., Ordoñez JL., Rivas A., Pihán P., Sagredo A., Ahumada U., Barriga A., Seguel I., Cárdenas C., Vidal RL., Hetz C., Delporte C. (2021) A phenolic-rich extract from Ugni molinae berries reduces abnormal protein aggregation in a cellular model of Huntington’s disease. PLoS One. e0254834 #*

Vidal RL, Sepulveda D, Troncoso-Escudero P, Garcia-Huerta P, Gonzalez C, Plate L, Jerez C, Canovas J, Rivera CA, Castillo V, Cisternas M, Leal S, Martinez A, Grandjean J, Sonia D, Lashuel HA, Martin AJM, Latapiat V, Matus S, Sardi SP, Wiseman RL, Hetz C. Enforced dimerization between XBP1s and ATF6f enhances the protective effects of the UPR in models of neurodegeneration. Mol Ther. S1525-0016(21)00067-8. #*

Troncoso-Escudero P., Hetz C., Vidal RL. (2021). Therapeutic potential of insulin-like growth factor 2 in Huntington’s disease: controlling proteostasis to alleviate the load of misfolded protein. Neural Regen Res. 16(8):1564-1565. *

Rozas P., Pinto C., Martínez Traub F., Díaz R., Pérez V., Becerra D., Ojeda P., Ojeda J., Wright MT., Mella J., Plate L., Henríquez JP., Hetz C., Medinas DB. (2021). Protein disulfide isomerase ERp57 protects early muscle denervation in experimental ALS.  Acta Neuropathol Commun. 9(1):21. #*

Ren J., Bi Y., Sowers JR., Hetz C. , Zhang Y. (2021). Endoplasmic reticulum stress and unfolded protein response in cardiovascular diseases. Nat Rev Cardiol. 10.1038/s41569-021-00511-w.

Hetz C. Et al. (2021) Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy. Autophagy. 8:1-382.

Leyton E., Matus D., Espinoza S., Benitez JM., Cortes BI., Gomez W., Arévalo NB., Murgas P., Manque P., Woehlbier U., Duran-Aniotz C.,  Hetz C. , Behrens MI., SanMartín CD., Nassif M. (2021). DEF8 and Autophagy-Associated Genes are Altered in Mild Cognitive Impairment, Probable Alzheimer’s Disease Patients and a Transgenic Model of the Disease. Alzheimers Dis. 10.3233/JAD-201264.

Martinez A., Cerna M., Gozalvo R., and Hetz C. (2021) Proteostasis impairment and ER stress as a possible target to treat Parkinson’s disease.  International Review of Movement Disorders. In press. #*

Pihán P, Nunes-Hasler P, Demaurex N., and Hetz C (2021). Simultaneous determination of intraluminal lysosomal calcium and pH by dextran-conjugated fluorescent dyes. Methods Cell Biol. 165:199-208. doi: 10.1016/bs.mcb.2021.02.007.

Medinas DB, Hazari Y. and Hetz C.  (2021) Disruption of Endoplasmic Reticulum Proteostasis in Age-Related Nervous System Disorders. Prog Mol Subcell Biols.9:239-278. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-67696-4_12.


2020


Dufey E., Bravo-San Pedro JM., Eggers C., González-Quiroz M., Urra H., Sagredo A., Sepulveda D., Pihan P., Carreras-Sureda A., Hazari Y., Sagredo E., Gutierrez D., Valls C., Papaioannou A., Acosta-Alvear D., Campos G., Domingos PM., Pedeux R., Chevet E., Alvarez A., Godoy P., Walter P., Glavic A., Kroemer G., C Hetz (2020).  Genotoxic stress triggers the activation of IRE1a-dependent RNA decay to modulate the DNA damage response. Nature Communications. 11(1):2401.*#

C Hetz , Zhang K., Kaufman R. (2020). Mechanisms, regulation and functions of the unfolded protein response. Nature Reviews Mol. Cell. Biol. 10.1038/s41580-020-0250-z. *#

 

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Garcia-Huerta P., Troncoso-Escudero P., Wu D., Thiruvalluvan A., Cisternas?Olmedo M., Henríquez D., Plate L., Chana-Cuevas P., Saque C., Thielen P., Longo K., Geddes B., Lederkremer G., Sharma N., Shenkman M., Naphade S., Sardi P., Spichiger C., Richter H., Court F., Tshitoko Tshilenge K., Ellerby L., Wiseman RL., Gonzalez?Billault C., Bergink S., Vidal R. and C Hetz (2020). Insulin-like growth factor 2 (IGF2) protects against Huntington’s disease through the extracellular disposal of protein aggregates. Acta Neuropathol. 10.1007/s00401-020-02183-1. *#

Taylor RC, C Hetz . (2020). Mastering organismal aging through the endoplasmic reticulum proteostasis network. Aging Cell. 19(11):e13265. #*

Urra H., Pihan P., and C Hetz (2020). The UPRsome: decoding novel biological outputs of IRE1 function. Journal of Cell Science. 133(15):jcs218107 *#

Díaz M., Díaz P., Castillo Bennett J., Urra H., Ortiz R., Contreras Orellana P, C Hetz , Quest A. (2020). Caveolin-1 suppresses tumor formation through the inhibition of the unfolded protein response.  Cell Death & Disease.11(8):648. #*

Díaz-Hung ML., Martínez G., C Hetz (2020). Emerging roles of the unfolded protein response (UPR) in the nervous system: A link with adaptive behavior to environmental stress. Int. Rev. Cell Mol Bol. (350): 29-61. *#

Pihán P, C Hetz . (2020) Getting intimate: Lysosomes and ER rendezvous to control autophagy. Cell Calcium. 91:102249. #*

González-Quiroz M, Blondel A, Sagredo A, C Hetz , Chevet E, Pedeux R. (2020). When Endoplasmic Reticulum Proteostasis Meets the DNA Damage Response. Trends Cell Biol. 30(11):881-891.

Flores-Muñoz C., Gómez B., Mery E., Mujica P., Gajardo I., Córdova C., Lopez-Espíndola D., Durán-Aniotz C.,C Hetz , Muñoz P., Gonzalez-Jamett A.M., Ardiles Á.O. (2020).  Acute Pannexin 1 Blockade Mitigates Early Synaptic Plasticity Defects in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease. Front Cell Neurosci. 19; 14:46.

Campos G., Schmidt-Heck W., De Smedt J., Widera A., Ghallab A., Pütter L., González D., Edlund K., Cadenas C., Marchan R., Guthke R., Verfaillie C., C Hetz , Sachinidis A., Braeuning A., Schwarz M., Weiß T.S., Banhart B.K., Hoek J., Vadigepalli R., Willy J., Stevens J.L., Hay D.C., Hengstler J.G.,+ and Godoy P. (2020). Inflammation-associated suppression of metabolic gene networks in acute and chronic liver disease. Arch Toxicol. 94: 205-217.

Hazari Y., Bravo-San Pedro. JM., C Hetz ,  Galluzi L., Kromer G. (2020). Autophagy in hepatic adaptation to stress. J. Hepatol. 72(1):183-196.*#


2019


Carreras-Sureda A., Jaña F., Urra H., Durand S., Mortenson D., Sagredo A., Bustos G., Hazari Y., Ramos-Fernández E., Sassano ML., Pihan P., van Vliet A., Gonzalez-Quiroz M., Tores A., Tapia-Rojas C., Kerkhofs M., Vicente R., Kaufman R., Inestrosa N., Gonzalez C., Wiseman R., Agostinis P., Bultynck G., Court F., Kroemer G., Cárdenes JC.,  and Hetz C. (2019). Non-canonical role of IRE1 as a functional determinant of mitochondria-associated endoplasmatic reticulum composition to control calcium transfer and bioenergetics.  Nature Cell Biology. 21(6):755-767.*#

 

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Oñate M., Catenaccio A., Salvadores N.,Saquel C., Martinez A.,  Moreno-Gonzalez I.,  Gamez N., Soto P., Soto C., Hetz C.* and Court F. (2019). The necroptosis machinery mediates axonal degeneration in a model of Parkinson disease. Cell Death Diff. 10.1038/s41418-019-0408-4.*#

Gerakis Y., Quintero M., Li H.  and Hetz C. (2019). The UFMylation system in proteostasis ans beyond. Trends in Cell biology. 29(12):974-986.*#

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Gonzalez-Teuber V., Albert-Gasco H., Auyeung V., Papa F., Mallucci G., and Hetz C. (2019). Small molecules to improve ER Proteostasis in disease.  Trends Pharmacol Sci. 40(9): 684-695. *

Beltran S., Nassif M., Vicencio E., Arcos J., Labrador L., Cortes BI., Cortez C., Bergmann CA., Espinoza S., Hernandez MF., Matamala JM., Bargsted L., Matus S., Rojas-Rivera D., Bertrand MJM., Medinas DB., Hetz C., Manque PA., Woehlbier U. (2019). Network approach identifies Pacer as an autophagy protein involved in ALS pathogenesis.  Mol. Neurodeg. 14:14.

Hetz C., and Axten J. (2019). Pharmacological targeting of the unfolded protein response for disease intervention. Nat Chem Biol. 15:764-775.

 

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Gerakis Y., and Hetz C. (2019). Brain Organoids: A next steps for humanized Alzheimer’s disease models? Mol. Phy. 24:474-478.*#

Pinto C., Medinas D., Fuentes-Villalobos F., Maripillán J., Castro A., Martinez A., Osses N., and Hetz C. (2019). Beta-Catenin aggregation in models of ALS motor neurons: GSK2 inhibition effect and neuronal differentiation stress links aging to sporadic ALS. Neurobiology of Disease. 130:104497. *

Pérez V., Bermedo-Garcia F., Zelada D., Court FA. Pérez MÁ. Fuenzalida M., Ábrigo J., Cabello-Verrugio C., Moya-Alvarado G., Tapia JC., Valenzuela V., Hetz C., Bronfman FC., Henríquez JP. (2019). The p75NTR neurotrophin receptor is required to organize the mature neuromuscular synapse by regulating synaptic vesicle availability. Acta Neuropathol Commun. 12; 147.

Limia C., Sauzay C., Urra H., Hetz C., Chevet E., and Avril T. (2019). Emerging roles of the Unfolded Protein Response in cancer cell migration and invasion. Cancers. 6;11(5). pii: E631 *

Medinas D., Cabral-Miranda F., and Hetz C. (2019). ER stress links aging to sporadic ALS. Aging. 11; 5-6.*#

Martínez A., López N., González C., and Hetz C. (2019). Targeting of the unfolded protein response (UPR) as therapy for Parkinson’s disease. Biol. cell. 111(6):161-168.*#

Koopman M., Hetz C., Nollen E. (2019). Saved by the matrix: UPR independent survival under ER stress. Cell. 179(6):1246-1248.*#


2018


Urra H., Henriquez D., Cánovas J., Villarroel-Campos D., Carreras-Sureda A., Pulgar E., Molina E., Hazari Y., Limia D., Alvarez-Rojas S., Figueroa R., Vidal R., Rodriguez D., Rivera C., Court F., Couve A., Qui L., Chevet E., Akai R., Iwawaki T., Concha M., Glavic A., Gonzalez-Billault C., and Hetz C. (2018). IRE1 governs cytoskeleton remodeling and cell migration through a direct interaction with Filamin A. Nature Cell Biology. 20:942-953

*#Commented in Science Signaling (2018) 11: eaav1986

Medinas D., Rozas P., Martinez F., Woehlbier U., Brown RH., Bosco D., and Hetz C. (2018). Endoplasmatic reticulum stress leads to accumulation of wild-type SOD1 aggreegates associated with sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Asci USA. 115:8209-8214 pii: 201801109. *#

García-González P., Cabral-Miranda F., Hetz C. and Osorio F. (2018). Interplay between the Unfolded Protein Response ans Inmmune Function in the development of neurodegenerative diseases. Front Immunol. Doi: 10.3389/fimmu.201802541. *#

Sepulveda D., Rojas-Rivera D., Rodriguez D., Groenendyk J., Köhler A., Lebeaupin C., Ito S., Urra H., Carreras-Sureda A., Vasseur-Cognet M., Chevet E., Campos G., Godoy P., Vaisar T., Bailly -Maitre B., Nagata K., Michalak M., Sierralta J., and Hetz C. (2018). Interactome screening identifies a novel function of the collagen chaperon Hsp47 as an adjustor of the unfolded protein response (UPR) transducer IRE1. Mol Cell. 69:238-252. *#

 

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Groenendyk J., Paskevivius T., Urra H., Viricel C., Wang K., Barakat K., Hetz C., Kurgan L., Agellon LB., Michalak M. (2018). Cyclosporine A binding to COX-2 reveals a novel signaling pathway that activates the IRE1 unfolded protein response sensor. Sci Rep. 9: 25-41. *#

Matamala JM., Arias-Carrasco R., Sanchez C., Uhrig M., Bargsted L., Matus S., Maracaja-Coutinho V., Abarzua S., van Zundert B., Verdugo R., Manque P., Hetz C. (2018). Genome-wide circulating microRNA expression profiling reveals potential biomarkers for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Neurobiol. Aging. 64:123-138. *#

Mercado G., Castillo V., Soto P., López N., Axten J., Sardi P., Hoozemans J. and Hetz C. (2018). Targeting PERK signaling with the small molecule GSK2606414 prevents neurodegeneration in a model of Parkinson’s disease. Neurobiol. Dis. 112:136-148.*#

Lhomond S., Avril T., Dejeans N., Voutetakis K., Doultsinos D., McMahon M., Pineau R., Obacz J., Papadodima O., Jouan F., Bourien H., Logotheti M., Jégou G., Pallares-Lupon N., Schmit K., Le Reste P., Etcheverry A., Mosser J., Barroso K., Vauléon E., Maurel M., Samali A., Patterson J., Pluquet O., Hetz C., Quillien V., Chatziioannou A. and Chevet E. (2018). Dual IRE1 RNase functions dictate glioblastoma development. EMBO Mol Med. 10 (3) pii: e7929. doi: 10.15252/emmm.201707929.*

Mercado G., Lopez N., Martinez A., Sardi P., and Hetz C. (2018). A new model to study cell-to-cell transfer of alpha Synuclein in vivo. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Com. 503:1385-1393 *#

Hetz C. and Papa F. (2018). The unfolded protein response and cell fate control. Molecular Cell. 69:169-181. *#

Valenzuela V., Nassif M., Hetz C. (2018). Unraveling the role of motoneuron autophagy in ALS. Autophagy. 14: 733-737.  *#.

News and commentaries.

Valenzuela V., Jackon K., Sardi P., and Hetz C.  (2018).  Gene therapy strategies to restore ER proteostasis in disease.  Mol Ther.  2:1404-1413. *#.

Gonzalez M., Urra H., Lima C., and Hetz C. (2018). Homeostatic interplay between FoxO protein and ER proteostasis in cancer and other diseases. Seminars Cancer Biol. 50: 42-52. *#

Lorenzo Galluzzi, Ilio Vitale, Claudio Hetz (and other 100), and Guido Kroemer (2018). Molecular mechanisms of cell death: recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death 2018. Cell Death Diff. 25(3): 486-541. Doi: 10.1038/s41418-017-0012-4*.

Perez R., Rivas A. and Hetz C. (2018). (off)Targeting UPR signaling: the race toward intervening ER proteostasis. Exp Opinion Therapeutic Targets. 22:97-100. *#. Editorial

Martínez G., Khatiwada S., Costa-Mattioli M., and Hetz C. (2018). ER proteostasis control of neuronal physiology and synaptic dysfunction. Trends Neurosci.  41(9):610-624. *#

Rojas D., Rodriguez D., Sepulveda S., and Hetz C. (2018). ER stress sensing mechanism: Putting the brake on UPR transducers. Oncotarget. 28: 19461-19462*#. Editorial.

Gerakis Y. and Hetz C. (2018). Emerging roles of ER stress in the aetiology and pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease. FEBS J. 63: 162-164. *#.

Lebeaupin C., Vallée D., Hazari Y., Hetz C., Chevet E., and Bailly-Maitre B. (2018). Endoplasmatic Reticulum stress signaling and the pathogenesis of Non-Alcoholic fatty Liver Disease. J. Hepatol. 69(4): 927-947. pii: S0168-8278(18)32161-5.1.*#.


2017


Hetz C. and Saxena S. (2017). ER stress signaling, regulation and pathological implications. Nature Neurology. 13:477-491*#

Duran-Aniotz C., Cornejo V., Espinoza S., Ardiles A., Medinas D., Salazar C., Foley A., Gajardo I., Thielen P., Iwawaki T., Scheper W., Soto C., Palacios A., Hoozemans J., and Hetz C. (2017). IRE1 signaling exacerbates Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis. Acta Neuropathol. 134:489-506.*#

Medinas, D., Valenzuela V., and Hetz C. (2017). Proteostasis Disturbance in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Hum. Mol. Gen. 26(R2):R91-R104. *#

Urra H. and Hetz C. (2017). An unanticipated step in the control of the unfolded protein response. Nature Structural & Mol. Biol. 24:789-790*#.

Park K., Kim G., Morales R., Moda F., Moreno-Gonzalez I., Concha-Marambio L., Lee A.S., Hetz C., and Soto C. (2017). The Endoplasmic Reticulum Chaperone GRP78/BiP Modulates Prion Propagation in vitro and in vivo. Scientific Rep. 7:44723*

González A., Muñoz V., Cavieres V., Bustamante H., Cornejo V., Januário Y., González Y., Hetz C., daSilva L., Rojas-Fernández A., Hay R., Mardones G., and Burgos P. (2017). Autophagosomes cooperate in the degradation of intracellular C-terminal fragments of the Amyloid Precursor Protein via the MVB/lysosomal pathway. FASEB J. 31:2446-2459*#

Castillo K., Valenzuela V., Oñate M., and Hetz C. (2017). A molecular reporter for monitoring autophagy flux in the nervous system. Methods Enzymol. 588:109-131 *#

Obacz , Avril T., Le Reste P., Urra H., Quillien V., Hetz C. and Chevet E. (2017). Endoplasmic Reticulum proteostasis in glioblastoma? from molecular mechanisms to therapeutic perspectives. Science Signaling. 10(470).*

Pihán P., Carreras-Sureda A. and Hetz C. (2017). BCL-2 family: Integrating stress responses at the ER to control cell demise. Cell Death Diff. doi: 10.1038/cdd.2017.82 *#

Bargsted L., Medinas D., Martínez F., Rozas P., Muñoz N., Nassif M., Jerez C., Catenaccio A., Court, F. Hetz C., and Matus C.  (2017).  Disulfide cross-linked multimers of TDP-43 and spinal motor neuron loss in a TDP-43A315T ALS/FTD mouse model. Scientific Reports. 7:14266*#

Martínez G., Duran-Aniotz C., Cabral-Miranda F., Vivar J.P. and Hetz C. (2017). ER proteostasis impairment in aging. Aging Cell. 16:615-623.*#

Mercado G., and Hetz C. (2017). Drug repurposing to target proteostasis and prevent neurodegeneration: accelerating translational efforts. Brain. 140:1544-1547. *# Scientific commentary.

Guerrero N., Meynard M., Borgonovo J., Palma K., Concha M. and Hetz C. (2017). Prion Function and Pathophysiology in Non-Mammalian Models. Curr Mol Med. 17:13-23. *#

Medinas D., Gonzalez J., Falcon P., and Hetz C. (2017). Fine-tuning the ER stress signal transducers to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Frontiers Mol Neurosci. 10: 1-8.

Cabral-Miranda F. and Hetz C. (2017). ER stress in neurodegenerative disease: a causal relationship? Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in Diseases. 4:11-26.*#

Carreras-Sureda A., Pihán P., and Hetz C. (2017). The Unfolded Protein Response: At the Intersection between Endoplasmic Reticulum Function and Mitochondrial Bioenergetics. Frontiers Oncology. 3:55*#


2016


Martínez G., Vidal R., Mardones P., Serrano F., Ardiles A., Wirth C., Valdés P., Thielen P., Schneider B., Kerr B., Valdés J., Palacios A., Inestrosa N., Glimcher L.H. and Hetz C. (2016). Regulation of memory formation by the transcription factor XBP1. Cell Rep. 14:1382-1394. *#

Woehlbier U, Colombo A, Saaranen M, Pérez V., Ojeda J., Bustos F., Andreu C., Torres M., Valenzuela V., Medinas D., Rozas P., Vidal R., Lopez-Gonzalez R.,Salameh J., Fernandez-Collemann S., Muñoz N., Matus S., Armisen R., Sagredo A., Palma K., Irrazabal T., Gonzalez-Perez P., Campero M., Gao F, Henny P., van Zundert B., Ruddock L., Concha M., Henriquez J., Brown R.H. and Hetz C. (2016). ALS-linked Protein Disulfide Isomerase Variants cause motor dysfunction. EMBO J. 35:845-65.*#

Commented in Maharjan  and Saxena (2016) EMBO J. 35, 798-800.

Oñate M., Catenaccio A., Martínez G., Armentano D., Parsons G., Kerr B., Hetz C. and Court F. (2016). Activation of the unfolded protein response promotes axonal regeneration after peripheral nerve injury. Scientific Reports. 6:21709. *#

Duran-Aniotz C., Cornejo V., and Hetz C. (2016). Targeting ER acetylation to restore proteostasis in Alzheimer’s disease. Brain. 139:650-652. *#

Editorial comment.

Mardones P., Rubinztein D. and Hetz C. (2016). Mystery solved: Trehalose kickstarts autophagy by blocking glucose transport. Science Sigaling. 9(416):fs2. *# Focus.

Nivon M., Fort L., Muller P., Richet E., Simon S., Guey B., Fournier M., Arrigo A.P., Hetz C., Atkin JD, Kretz-Remy C. (2016). NF?B is a central regulator of protein quality control in response to protein aggregation stresses via autophagy modulation. Mol Biol Cell. 27:1712-27*

Garcia-Huerta P., Troncoso-Escudero P., Jerez C., Hetz C. and Vidal R. (2016). The intersection between growth factors, autophagy and ER stress: a new target to treat neurodegenerative diseases?. Brain Res. p1649:173-180. *#

Rozas P., Sepulveda M., Hetz C. and Medinas D. (2016). ERp57 as a novel cellular factor controlling Prion biosynthesis: Therapeutic potential of protein disulfide isomerases. Prion. 10:50-6.*#

Klionsky et al (Hetz C.) (2016). Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy(2nd edition). Autophagy. 12:1-222*

Urra H., Dufey E., Avril T., Chevet E. and Hetz C. (2016). ER stress and the hallmarks of cancer. Trends in Cancer. 5:252-262. *#

Rozas P., Bargsted L., Martínez F., Hetz C. and Medinas D.B. (2016). The ER proteostasis network in ALS: explaining the differential motoneuron vulnerability. Neuroscience Letters. 636:9-15. *#

Hetz C. and Saxena S. (2016). Divergent roles of ER stress in neurodegeneration and brain disorders. Brain Res. 648:527-529. *#

Preface, special review edition.

Valenzuela V., Martinez G., Duran C., and Hetz C. (2016). Gene therapy to target ER stress in brain diseases. Brain Res. 1648:561-570. *#

Valenzuela V., Oñate V., Hetz C. and Court F. (2016). Injury to the nervous system: a look into the ER. Brain Res. 1648:561-570. *#

Mollereau B, Roussel B.D., Chevet E., Sedru M., Van den Brink D., Bailly-Maitre B., Palladino F., Medinas D.B.,Domingos P.M., Hunot S., Chandran S., Rzechorzek N.M., Birman S., Baron T., Vivien D., Duarte C.B., Ryoo H.D.., Crowder C.M., Urano F., Steller H., Kroemer G., Ciechanover A., Calabrese E., Kaufman R.J. and Hetz C. (2016). Adaptive preconditioning in neurological diseases – therapeutic insights from proteostatic perturbations. Brain Res. 1648:603-616.*

Bargsted L., Hetz C., Matus S. (2016). ERp57 in neurodegeneration and regeneration. Neural Regen Res. 11:232-233. *#

Martinez G., Duran-Aniotz D., Cabral F and Hetz C. (2016). Decay in the buffering capacity of the ER proteostasis network during aging. Frontiers Aging Neuroscience. In press. *#

Sepulveda M., Rozas P., Hetz C., Medinas D.B. (2016). ERp57 as a novel cellular factor controlling prion protein biosynthesis: Therapeutic potential of protein disulfide isomerases. Prion. 10:50-6.*#

Oñate M., Court F., and Hetz C. (2016). Bursting the UPR accelerates axonal regeneration. Neural Regen Res. 11:892-3. *#

Xiang M, Kim H, Ho VT, Walker SR, Bar-Natan M, Anahtar M, Liu S, Toniolo PA, Kroll Y, Jones N, Giaccone ZT, Heppler LN, Ye DQ, Marineau JJ, Shaw D, Bradner JE, Blonquist T, Neuberg D, Hetz C., Stone RM, Soiffer RJ, and Frank DA (2016). Gene expression-based discovery of atovaquone as a STAT3 inhibitor and anti-cancer agent. Blood. pii: blood-2015-07-660506.*

Gupta A., Mosaraf Hossain M., Read D., Hetz C., Samali A. and Gupta S. (2016). PERK regulated miR-424(322)-503 cluster fine-tunes activation of IRE1 and ATF6 during Unfolded Protein Response. Scientific Reports 5:18304. *

Duran-Aniotz C. and Hetz C. (2016). Glucose metabolism: A Sweet relief of Alzheimer´s disease. Current Biol. 26:R806–R809. *#

Martínez G, Duran-Aniotz C, Cabral-Miranda F, and Hetz C. (2016). Commentary: XBP-1 Is a Cell-Nonautonomous Regulator of Stress Resistance and Longevity. Front Aging Neurosci. 8:182. *# Commentary.

Ramírez M., Gallardo A., Cornejo A., Vidal A., Ramírez D., Medinas D., Hetz C., Bustamante G., Pasquali R. (2016). Chalenges in the diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob: A case report. Rev Med Chilena. 114(6):796-806.*


2015


Mardones P, Hetz C. (2015). Peroxisomes Get Loud: A Redox Antidote to Hearing Loss. Cell. 163:790-1. *

Hetz C., Chevet E., and Oakes S. (2015). Proteostasis control by the unfolded protein response. Nature Cell Biology. 7:829-38. *#.

Torres M., Medinas D.B., Matamala J.M., Woehlbier U., Cornejo V.H., Solda T., Andreu C., Rozas P., Matus S., Muñoz N., Vergara C., Cartier L., Soto C., Molinari M., and Hetz C. (2015). The Protein Disulfide Isomerase ERp57 Regulates the Steady-State Levels of the Prion Protein. J Biol Chem. 290:23631-45*#

Castillo V., Oñate M., Woehlbier U., Rozas P., Andreu C., Medinas D., Valdés P., Osorio F., Mercado G., Vidal R.L., Kerr B., Court F.A., and Hetz C. (2015). Functional Role of the Disulfide Isomerase ERp57 in Axonal Regeneration. PLoS One. 10:e0136620. *#

Mardones P. Martinez G., and Hetz C. (2015). Control of systemic proteostasis by the nervous system. Trends Cell Biol. 25:1-10*#. (Cover illustration).

Mardones P., DiIllin A. and Hetz C. (2015). Cell-nonautonomous control of the UPR: Mastering energy homeostasis. Cell Metabolism. 20:385-7. Editorial comment. *#

Rojas-Rivera D. and Hetz C. (2015). TMBIM protein family: ancestral regulators of cell death. Oncogene. 34:269-280.*#

Garcia-Huerta P., Rivas A., and Hetz C. (2015). Stressing out the ER in aminoglycoside-induced hearing loss. Cell Death Dis. 14;6:e1762. Editorial comment. *#

Cardenas-Sureda A. and Hetz C. (2015). RNA metabolism: Putting the brake on the UPR. EMBO Rep. 6:545-6. Editorial comment. *#

Hetz C. and Chevet E. (2015). Theme Series – UPR in cancer. Sem Cancer Biology. 33:1-2. Editorial comment. *#

Chevet E., Hetz C., and Samali A. (2015). Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress-Activated Cell Reprogramming in Oncogenesis. Cancer Discovery. 5:586-97*

Dufey E., Urra H., and Hetz C. (2015). ER proteostasis addiction in cancer biology: Novel concepts. Sem Cancer Biology. 33:40-7*#

Gonzalez-Perez P., Woehlbier U.,Chian RJ.,Sapp P.,Rouleau GA.,Leblond CS.,Daoud H.,Dion P.A, Landers J.E., Hetz C., Brown R.H.(2015). Identification of rare protein disulfide isomerase gene variants in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients, Gene. 566:158-65. *#

Mercado G., Castillo V., Vidal R. and Hetz C. (2015). ER proteostasis disturbances in Parkinson’s disease: novel insights. Frontiers Aging Neurosci. 7:39. *#

Torres M., Matamala J.M., Duran-Aniotz C., Cornejo V.H., Foley A., Hetz C. (2015). ER stress signaling and neurodegeneration: At the intersection between Alzheimer’s disease and Prion-related disorders. Virus Res. 207:69-75. *#

Rivas A., Vidal R. and Hetz C. (2015). Pharmacological strategies to target endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress with chemical and natural compounds. Expert Opinion Therapeutic Targets. 19:1203-1.. *#

Mercado G., Castillo V. and Hetz C. (2015). Mercado G., Gene therapy in Parkinson´s disease: targeting the ER proteostasis network. Neural Regeneration Research. 10:1053-1054. *#


2014


Hetz C. and Mollereau B. (2014). Disturbance of ER proteostasis in neurodegenerative diseases. Nature Rev Neurosci. 15:233-249.*#

Valdés P., Mercado G., Vidal R., Parsons G., Court F., Molina C., Martinez A., Galleguillos D., Armentano D., Schneider B., and Hetz C. (2014). Control of dopaminergic neuron survival by the unfolded protein response transcription factor XBP1. Proc Natl. Acad. Asci USA. 111:6804-9. *#

Groenendyk J., Peng Z., Dudek E., Fan X., Mizianty M., Dufey E., Urra H., Sepulveda D., Rojas-Rivera D., Lim Y., Han Kim D., Baretta K., Srikanth S., Gwack Y., Ahnn J., Kaufman K., Lee S., Hetz C., Kurgan L. and Michalak M. (2014). Interplay Between the Oxidoreductase PDIA6 and microRNA-322 Controls the Response to Disrupted Endoplasmic Reticulum Calcium Homeostasis. Science Signaling 7: 1-14.* (Cover illustration).

Nassif M., Valenzuela V., Rojas-Rivera D., Vidal R., Matus S, Castillo K., Fuentealba Y., Kroemer G., Levine B., and Hetz C. (2014). Pathogenic role of BECN1/Beclin 1 in the development of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Autophagy. 10: 1256-1271*#. (Cover illustration).

Urra H. and Hetz C. (2014). A novel ER stress-independent function of the UPR in angiogenesis. Mol Cell. 54:542-544. Editorial comment. *#

Medinas D. and Hetz C. (2014). Protein folding stress: Modeling UPR adaptive responses. Nature Chem Biol. 10:879-80. Editorial comment. *#

Vidal R., Matus S., Bargsted L., and Hetz C. (2014). Targeting autophagy in neurodegenerative diseases. Trends Pharmacol Sci. 35: 583-91*# (Cover illustration).

Couve A. and Hetz C. (2014).  RESETing ER proteostasis: New stress pathways hidden in the secretory pathway. EMBO J. 33:2444-6. Editorial comment. *#

Matus S., Bosco D., and Hetz C. (2014). Autophagy meets FUS-positive Stress Granules. Neurobiol Dis. 35: 2832-5. Editorial comment. *#

Dufey E., Sepulveda D., Rojas DR., and Hetz C. (2014). ER stress signaling mechanisms: an overview. Am J. Physiol -Cell Physiology. 307: C582-94. *#

Matus S., Medinas D., and Hetz C. (2014). Common Ground: Stem Cell Approaches Find Shared Pathways Underlying ALS. Cell Stem Cell. 14: 697-699. Editorial comment. *#

Torres M, Matamala JM, Duran-Aniotz C, Cornejo VH, Foley A, Hetz C. (2014). ER stress signaling and neurodegeneration: At the intersection between Alzheimer’s disease and Prion-related disorders. Virus Res. 2014 Dec 31. pii: S0168-1702(14)00523-1. *#

Campos G., Schmidt-Heck W., Ghallab A., Rochlitz K., Pu?tter L., Medinas D., Hetz C., Widera A, Cadenas C, Begher-Tibbe B., Reif R., Gu?nther G., Sachinidis A., Hengstler J., and Godoy P. (2014). The transcription factor CHOP, a central component of the transcriptional regulatory network induced upon CCl4 intoxication in mouse liver, is not a critical mediator of Hepatotoxicity. Archives Toxicol. 88: 1267-1280.*

Dejeans N., Manié S., Hetz C., Bard F., Hupp T., Agostinis P., Samali A. and Chevet E. (2014). Addicted to secrete – novel concepts and targets in cancer therapy. Trend Mol Med. 20: 242-250.*

Duran-Aniotz C., Martinez G. and Hetz C. (2014). Memory loss in Alzheimer´s disease: Are the alterations in the UPR network involved in the cognitive impairment? Frontiers Aging Neurosci. 6:1-3.*#

Matus S., Valenzuela V. and Hetz C. (2014). A new method to measure of autophagy flux in the nervous system. Autophagy. 10:710–714.*#


2013


Hetz C. (2013). The biological meaning of the UPR. Nature Rev Mol Cell Biol. 14:404. *#

Hetz C., Chevet E., and Harding H. (2013). Targeting the unfolded protein response in disease. Nature Rev Drug Discovery 12:703-719. *#

Bilches D. and Hetz C. (2013). Proteostasis impairment: A molecular intersection between Alzheimer´s disease and diabetes. Cell Metabolism. 8:771-2. Editorial comment. *#

Acuña A., Esparza M., Kramm C., Beltrán F., Parra A., Cepeda C., Toro C., Vidal R., Hetz C., Concha I., Brauchi S., Levine M. and Castro M. (2013). A failure in energy metabolism and antioxidant uptake precede the onset of Huntington’s disease. Nature Communications. 13:2917.*

Castillo K., Valenzuela V., Matus S., Nassif M., Oñate M, Fuentealba Y. Encina G., Irrazabal T., Parsons G., Court F., Schneider B., Armentano D., and Hetz C. (2013). Measurement of autophagy flux in the nervous system in vivo. Cell Death Dis. 4:e917. *#

Castillo K., Nassif M., Valenzuela V., Rojas F., Matus S., Mercado G., Court F., van Zundert B., and Hetz C. (2013). Trehalose delays the progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis by enhancing autophagy in motoneurons. Autophagy. 9:1308-20. *#

Matus S, Lopez E., Valenzuela V., Nasiff M., and Hetz C. (2013). Functional role of the transcription factor ATF4 in the pathogenesis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. PloS One. 8:e66672.

Mercado G., Valdés P., and Hetz C. (2013). An ERcentric view of Parkinson’s disease. Trends Mol. Med. 19(3):165-75. *#

Urra H, Dubey E, Lisbona F, Rojas D, and Hetz C. (2013). When ER stress reaches a dead end. Biochim Biophys Acta (BBA) – Molecular Cell Research. S0167-4889(13)00311-X. *#

Kiviluoto S., Luyten T., Schneider L., Lisak D., Rojas-Rivera D., Welkenhuyzen K., Missiaen L., De Smedt H., Parys J., Hetz C., Methner A., Bultynck G. (2013). Bax Inhibitor-1-mediated Ca2+ leak is decreased by cytosolic acidosis. Cell Calcium. 54:186-192. *

Quiroga C., Gatica D., Paredes F., Bravo R., Troncoso R:, Pedrozo Z., Rodriguez A., Vicencio J.M., Toro B., Chiong M., Hetz C. and Lavandero S. (2013). Herp depletion protects from Biochim Biophys Acta. (BBA) – Molecular Cell Research. 1833:3295-3305. *#

Vidal R. and Hetz C. (2013). Unspliced XBP1 controls autophagy through FoxO1. Cell Res. 23(4):463-4. Editorial comment. *#

Matus S., Valenzuela V., Medina D. and Hetz C. (2013). ER dysfunction and protein folding stress in ALS. Int. J Cell Biol. 2013:674751. *#

Cornejo VH, Pihán P., Vidal R., and Hetz C. (2013). Role of the UPR in organ physiology: Lessons from mouse models. IUBMB Life 65:962-75. *#

Cornejo VH. and Hetz C. (2013). The Unfolded Protein Response in Alzheimer’s disease. Semminars Immunol. 35(3):277-92. *#

Smaili SS, Quest AF, Hetz C., Lavandero S. (2013). Editorial: signaling in cell death, survival, proliferation and degeneration. Curr Mol Med. 2013 Feb 1;13(2):239-40*#


2012


Hetz C. (2012). The unfolded protein response: controlling cell fate decisions under ER stress and beyond. Nat Rev. Mol Cell Biol. 13(2):89-102. *#

Rodriguez D., Zamorano S., Lisbona F., Rojas D., Cubillos-Ruiz J., Armisen R., Henriquez D., Urra H., Cheng E., Letek M., Vaisar T., Irrazabal T., Gonzalez-Billault C., Letai A., Pimentel-Muiños F., Kroemer G. and Hetz C. (2012). BH3-only proteins are part of a regulatory network that control the sustained signaling of the Unfolded Protein Response sensor IRE1. EMBO J. 31(10):2322-35. *#

Vidal R., Figueroa A., Court F., Thielen P., Molina C., Wirth C., Caballero B., Kiffin R., Segura-Aguilar J., Cuervo AM, Glimcher L., and Hetz C. (2012). Targeting the UPR transcription factor XBP1 protects against Huntington’s disease through the regulation of FoxO1 and autophagy. Hum. Mol. Gen. 21(10):2245-62. *#

Rojas-Rivera D, Armisén R., Colombo A., Eguiguren A., Martínez G., Díaz A., Kiviluoto S., Rodríguez D., Patron M., Rizzuto R., Bultynck G., Concha M., Sierralta J., Stutzin A., and Hetz C. (2012). TMBIM3/GRINA is a novel Unfolded Protein Response (UPR) target gene that controls apoptosis through the modulation of ER calcium homeostasis. Cell Death Diff. 9:1013-26. *#

Zamorano S., Rojas-Rivera D., Lisbona F., Parra V., Court F., Villegas R., Cheng E., Korsmeyer S., Lavandero S., and Hetz C. (2012). A BAX/BAK and Cyclophilin D-independent Intrinsic Apoptosis Pathway. PLoS One. :e37782. *#

Valenzuela V, Collyer E., Armentano D., Parsons G., Court F. and Hetz C. (2012). Activation of the Unfolded Protein Response enhances motor recovery after spinal cord injury. Cell Death Dis. 3, e272 *#

Torres M., Cartier L., Matamala J, Hernandez N., Woehvier U., and Hetz C. (2012). Altered Prion protein expression pattern in CSF as a biomarker for Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. PLoS One. 7:e36159. *#

Read D., Deepti A., Cawley K., Gupta A., Oommen D., Verfaillie T., Matus S., Agostinis P., Hetz C., Samali A. (2012). Perk-dependent Repression of miR-106b-25 Cluster is Required for ER stress-induced Apoptosis. Cell Death Dis. 28;3:e333 *#

Zuleta A., Rene L. Vidal R., Armentano D., Parsons G., and Hetz C. (2012). AAV-mediated delivery of the transcription factor XBP1s locally into the striatum reduces mutant Huntingtin aggregation in a mouse model of Huntington’s Disease. Biochem. Biophys Res Comm. 13:558-63.*#

Herrera R., Frischknecht R., Seidenbecher C., Gundelfinger E., Hetz C., Aylwin M., Schneider P., Quest A. And Leyton L. (2012). Astrocytic V3 Integrin Inhibits Neurite Outgrowth and Promotes Retraction of Neuronal Processes by Clustering Thy-1. PLoS One. 7: e34295. #

Martínez G. and Hetz C. (2012). Cell-nonautonomous control of the Unfolded Protein Response. EMBO Rep. *# 13:767-8. Editorial comment.

Urra H. and Hetz C. (2012). The ER in 4D: A novel stress pathway controlling endoplasmic reticulum membrane remodeling. Cell Death Diff. 19:1893-5. Editorial comment. *#

Nassif M and Hetz C. (2012). Autophagy impairment: A crossroad between neurodegeneration and Tauopathies. BMC Biology. 10:78-81. Editorial comment. *#

Klionsky and Hetz C. others. (2012). Guidelines for the Use and Interpretation of Assays for Monitoring Autophagy in Higher Eukaryotes. Autophagy. 8:445.554. *#

Vidal R. and Hetz C. (2012). Crosstalk between the UPR and autophagy pathway contribute to handling cellular stress in neurodegenerative disease. Autophagy. 8:970-2. *#

Vidal R and Hetz C. (2012). Alleviating Secretory Pathway Stress in Huntington Disease. HD indights. 3:11-12.

Matus S, Castillo K, and Hetz C. (2012). Hormesis: Protecting neurons against cellular stress in Parkinson´s disease. Autophagy. 8:997-1001.*# Editorial comment. *#

Andreau C, Woehlbier U, Torres M, and Hetz C. (2012). Protein Disulfide Isomerases in Neurodegeneration: from disease mechanisms to biomedical applications. FEBS Lett. 586:2826-34. *#


2011


Castillo K, Rojas-Rivera D., Lisbona F., Caballero B., Nassif M., Court F., Schuck S., Ibar C., Walter P., Sierralta J., Glavic A., and Hetz C. (2011). BAX inhibitor-1 regulates autophagy by controlling the IRE1/JNK branch of the unfolded protein response. EMBO J. 4465-78*#

Hetz C., Martino F, Rodriguez, and Glimcher LH. (2011). The Unfolded Protein Response: Integrating stress signals through the stress sensor IRE1. Physiological Reviews. 91:1219-43. *#

Woehlbier U. and Hetz C. (2011). Modulating stress responses by the UPRosome: A matter of life and death. Trends in Biochem Ssci (TiBS). 36:329-37. *#

Nassif M. and Hetz C. (2011). Targeting autophagy in ALS: a complex mission. Autophagy. 7(4).*#

Matus S., Glimcher LH., and Hetz C. (2011). Protein folding stress in neurodegenerative diseases: a glimpse into the ER. Curr Op. Cell Biol. 23:239-52.*#

Hetz C. and Glimcher LH. (2011). Protein homeostasis networks in physiology and disease. Curr Op. Cell Biol. Editorial Overview. 23:123-5. *#

Torres M., Encina G., Soto C., and Hetz C. (2011). Abnormal calcium homeostasis and protein folding stress at the ER: a common factor in familial and infectious Prion disorders. Commun Integr Biol. 4: 258 – 261. *#

Rodriguez D., Rojas D., and Hetz C. (2011). The Endoplasmic Reticulum Gateway of Death. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) – Molecular Cell Research. 1813:564-74. *#

Barrientos S.A., Martinez N.W., Yoo S., Jara, J.S., Zamorano S, Hetz C., Twiss J.L. Alvarez J., Court F. A. (2011). Axonal degeneration is mediated by the mitochondrial permeability transition pore. J. Neurosci. 31:966-978. *#

Klein A, Maldonado C., Vargas L., Robledo F., Perez de Arce K., Muñoz F., Hetz C., and Alvarez A., Zanlungo S. (2011). Oxidative stress activates the c-Abl/p73 proapoptotic pathway in Niemann-Pick type C neurons. Corresponding Neurobiol Dis. 41:209-18.

Vidal R., Caballero B., Couve A., and Hetz C. (2011). Converging pathways in the occurrence of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress in Huntington’s disease. Curr. Mol. Med. 11:1-12 (Cover illustration) *#

Paula-Lima A, T. Adasme, A. Sebollela, C. Hetz, M. A. Carrasco, S. T. Ferreira and C. Hidalgo. (2011). Amyloid ? peptide oligomers stimulate RyR-mediated Ca2+release inducing mitochondrial fragmentation and prevent RyR-mediated dendritic spine remodeling produced by BDNF in hippocampal neurons. Antiox Red Sig. 14:1209-23.

Klein A, Mosqueira M, Martínez G, Robledo F, González M, Caballero B, Cancino GI, Alvarez AR, Hetz C., Zanlungo S. (2011). Lack of activation of the unfolded protein response in mouse and cellular models of Niemann-Pick type C disease. Neurodegener Dis. 2011;8(3):124-8. Epub 2010 Aug 13.


2010


Torres M., Castillo K., Arminsen R., Stutzin A., Soto C., and Hetz C. (2010). Prion Protein Misfolding Affects Calcium Homeostasis and Sensitizes Cells to Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress. PlosOne. 5: e15658- e15658.*#

Sanjeev Gupta, Ayswaria Deepti, Shane Deegan, Fernanda Lisbona, Claudio Hetz and Afshin Samali. (2010). HSP72 Protects Cells from ER Stress-induced Apoptosis via Enhancement of IRE1-XBP1 Signalling through a physical interaction. Plos Biology. 8: e1000410-e1000410.

Melissa Nassif, Soledad Matus, Karen Castillo, and Claudio Hetz (2010). Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis pathogenesis: a journey through the secretory pathway. Antiox Red. Sig. 13:1955-89.


2009


Matus S., Nassif M., Glimcher LH, and Hetz C. (2009). XBP-1 deficiency in the nervous system revealed a homeostatic switch to activate autophagy. Autophagy. Nov 6;5(8). (Cover illustration) *#

Hetz C. and Glimcher L. (2009). Fine tuning of the Unfolded Protein Response: Assembling the IRE1 interactome. Mol Cell. 35:551-61. *#

Hetz C., Thielen P, Matus S., M Nassif, Court F., Cuervo AM., Martinez G., Kiffin R., R.H. Brown and Glimcher L. (2009). XBP-1 deficiency in the nervous system protects against amyotrophic lateral sclerosis by increasing autophagy. Genes & Dev. 23:2294–2306. (Cover illustration) *#
Commented in Genes Dev. (2009), 23:2294-306.

Lisbona F. and Hetz C. (2009). Turning off the unfolded protein response: An interplay between the apoptosis machinery and ER stress signaling. Cell Cycle. 8:3-4.*#

Lisbona F., Rojas D., Thielen P., Zamorano S., Todd D., Martinon F., Glavic A., Kress C.,, Lin J., Walter P., Reed J., Glimcher L. and Hetz C. (2009). BAX Inhibitor-1 is a negative regulator of the ER stress sensor IRE1. Mol. Cell. 33:679-691.*# (Cover illustration)
Commented in Mol Cell (2009), 33:669-70.

Hetz C. (2009). The UPR as a survival factor of cancer cells: More than folding proteins? Leukemia Res. 33:880-882.*#


2008


Matus S., Lisbona F., Torres M., Leon C., Thielen P., and Hetz C. (2008). The stress rheostat: Interplay between the Unfolded Protein Response (UPR) and Autophagy in neurodegeneration. Curr. Mol. Med. 8:157-172. *#.

Hetz C. (2008). Apoptosis, Autophagy and Necrosis: From mechanisms to biomedical applications. Curr. Mol. Med. 8(2):76-77 *#. Editorial comment.

Hetz C., Lee AH, Gonzalez-Romero D., Thielen P., Castilla J., Soto C. and Glimcher L. (2008). The Unfolded Protein Response transcription factor XBP-1 does not influence Prion replication or pathogenesis. Proc. Natl. Acad Sci. 105: 757-62 *#

Hetz C. and Glimcher L. (2008). The deadly job of night Killer: New regulatory roles of the BCL-2 family in organelle physiology. Trends in Cell Biol. 18(1):38-44. (Cover illustration)

Hetz C. and Glimcher L. (2008). The UPRosome and XBP-1: mastering secretory cell function. Curr. Immunol Rev. 4:1-10*#.


2007


Steele A., Hetz C., Yi C., Jackson W., Borkowski A., Yuan J., Wollmann R., and Lindquist S. (2007). Prion pathogenesis is independent of Caspase-12. Prion. 4:1-5. *#

Steele A., King O., Jackson W., Hetz C., Borkowski A., Thielen P., Wollmann R., and Lindquist S. (2007). Diminishing apoptosis by deletion of Bax or overexpression of Bcl-2 does not protect against infectious prion toxicity in vivo (2007) J. of Neuroscience. 27: 13022-7. *

Hetz C. (2007). ER stress signaling: Form adaptation to irreversible cellular damage. Antiox Redox Signal. 9:1-12. *#

Hetz C. Thielen P., Fisher J., Pacinelli, P., Brown, R., Korsmeyer S. and Glimcher L. (2007). The Pro-apoptotic BCL-2 Family Member BIM Mediates Motoneuron Loss in a Model of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Cell Death and Diff. 14(7):1386-1389.*#

Hetz C., Castilla, J. and Soto C. (2007). Perturbation of endoplasmic reticulum homeostasis facilitates prion replication. J. Biol. Chem. 282:12725-33. *#


2006


Hetz, C., Bernasconi, P., Fisher, J., Lee, A., Bassik, M., Antonsson, B., Brandt, G., Iwakoshi, N,. Schinzel, A., Glimcher, L. and Korsmeyer, S. (2006). Proapoptotic BAX and BAK modulate the unfolded protein response by a direct interaction with IRE1alpha. Science. 312: 572-6. #
Commented in Nat. Rev. Cell Biol. (2006)7:388 Handling the stress; ACS Chem. Biol. (2006)1:188. Stressed out cells.

Hetz C. and Soto, C. (2006). Emerging roles of the Unfolded protein response signaling in physiology and disease. Curr. Mol. Med. 6: 1-3. Editorial comment as executive editor.*#

Hetz C. and Soto, C. (2006). Stressing out the ER: A Role of unfolded protein response in prion-related disorders. Curr. Mol. Med. 6:37-43.*#


2005


Hetz C., Vitte, P., Bombrun, A., Rostovtseva, T., Montessuit, S., Hiver, A., Schwarz, M., Church, D., Korsmeyer, S., Martinou, J.C. and Antonsson, B. (2005). Bax channel inhibitors prevent cytochrome c release from mitochondria and protect neurons in a model of global brain ischemia. J. Biol. Chem. 280: 42960-42970.*

Hetz C., Torres, V., and Quest A. (2005). Beyond apoptosis: Non-apoptotic cell death in physiology and disease. Biochem. Cell. Biol. 83:579-588.*

Schinzel, A., Takeuchi, O., Huang, Z., Fisher, J., Zhou, Z., Rubens J., Hetz C. Danial, N., Moskowits, M., and Korsmeyer, S. (2005). Cyclophilin D is an essential component of mitochondrial permeability transition and mediates neuronal cell death after focal cerebral ischemia. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. 102:12005-12010.

Castilla, J., Saa, P., Hetz C. and Soto, C. (2005). In vitro generation of infectious scrapie prions. Cell. 121:195-206.*

Commented in Cell (2005)121:155-162. From microbes to prions: The final proof of the prion hypothesis; Science (2005). 421:3. Proof positive for prions; Nature (2005)432:39. Prion progress; Nature Med. (2005)11:480. Nothing but prion.

Hetz C., Russelakis, M., Wälchli S., Carboni S., Vial-Knecht E., Maundrell K. and Soto, C. (2005). The disulfide isomerase Grp58 is a protective factor against prion neurotoxicity. J. Neurosci. 25:2793-2802.*


2004


Russelakis, M., Hetz C., Maundrell K., and Soto, C. (2004). Prion replication alters the distribution of synaptophysin and caveolin 1 in neuronal lipid rafts. Am. J. Pathol. 165:1839-1848.*

Castilla C., Hetz C., Soto C. (2004). Molecular mechanisms of neurotoxicity of pathological Prion protein. Curr. Mol. Med. 4:397-403. *


2003


Hetz C., Russelakis, M., Maundrell, K. Castilla, J. and Soto, C. (2003). Caspase-12 and endoplasmic reticulum stress mediate neurotoxicity of pathological prion protein. EMBO J. 22:5435-5445. * Commented in Science, STKE (2003)302:1007. Prions stress out the ER.

Hetz C., Maundrell, K. and Soto, C. (2003). Is loss of function of the prion protein the cause of Prion Disorders? Trends Mol. Med. 9:237-243.*

Hetz C. and Soto, C. (2003). Prion Misfolding and Disease: The Case of Prion Protein. Cell. Mol. Life Sci. 60:133-1432.*

Hetz C., Benavent, S. Bieler, S. and Soto, C. (2003). Prion Protein Misfolding and Brain Degeneration. Curr. Med. Chem. 3:137-147.*


2002


Hetz C., Hunn, M., Rojas, P. Leyton, L., and Quest, A. F. (2002). Caspase-dependent Initiation of Apoptosis and Necrosis by the Fas Recetor: A Role for the Lipid Second Messenger Ceramide in Initiation of FasL-induced Necrosis. J. Cell Sci. 115: 4671-83.*

Apoptosis vs necrosis: ceramide decides it. and in Science, STKE (2002), Issue 158: 414. A Back-up death plan. Commented in J. Cell. Sci. (2002)115:e2304.

Hetz C. Bono, M., Barros, F. and Lagos, R.. (2002). Microcin E492, a Channel-forming Bacteriocin from Klebsiella pneumoniae, Induces Apoptosis in Some Human Cell Lines. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci USA. 99:2696-2701. *


2001


Leyton, L., Schneider, P., Labra, C., Ruegg, C., Hetz C., Quest, A. and Brown C. (2001). Thy-1 binds to the integrin 3 on astrocytes and triggers formation of focal contact sites. Curr. Biol. 11:1028-38.*

Barros, F., Stutzin, A., Calixto, A., Catalán, M., Castro, J., Hetz C., and Hermosilla, T. (2001). Non-selective Cation Channels as Effectors of Free Radical-induced Liver Cell Necrosis. Hepatology. 33:114-22.*

Lagos, R., Baeza, M., Corsini, G., Hetz C., Strahsburger, E., Castillo J., Vergara C., and Monasterio O. (2001). Structure, Organization and Characterization of the Gene Cluster Involved in the Production of Microcin E492, a Channel-Forming Bacteriocin. Mol. Microbiol. 42: 229-244.*


Book Chapters


Cabral-Miranda F. and Hetz C. (2017).
ER stress and neurodegenerative disease: a cause or effect relationship? Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology: Book chapter: “Coordinating Organismal Physiology Through the Endoplasmic Reticulum Unfolded Protein Response’. Springer-Verlag editorial. In press. *#. Peer Commentary Forum.

Bargsted L., Vidal R., Hetz C., and Matus M. (2016).
Dual role of autophagy in neurodegenerative diseases: The case of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Springer editorial. Book entitled “Toxicity and Autophagy in Neurodegenerative Disorders”. Volume 9: 63-78 *#

Nassif M, Medinas D., Castillo K., Gherardelli C., and Hetz C. (2015).
When the good turns bad: Challenges in the targeting of autophagy in neurodegenerative disease. Book Chapter 4-volume series, “Autophagy: Cancer, Other Pathologies, Infection, Inflammation and Immunity” Elsevier Publishing Company.

Galleguillos D., Matus S. Valenzuela V., Valdes P., Martinez A., Nassif M., Torres M., Martinez G., and Hetz C. (2009).
Targeting endoplasmic reticulum stress pathways to alleviate neurological disorders associated with protein misfolding. E-book series. Bentham Science Publishers.

Rojas D., Caballero, B., Zamorano S., Lisbona F., and Hetz C. (2010).
Alternative Functions of the BCL-2 Protein Family at the Endoplasmic Reticulum. Bioscience publishers. Adv Exp Med Biol. 2010;687:33-47.

Hetz C. BCL-2 protein family. (2010).
Essential regulators of cell death. Preface. Bioscience publishers. Adv Exp Med Biol. 2010;687:vii-viii.

Matus S., Thielen P., Nassif M., Torres M., and Hetz C. (2008).
Targeting stress pathways to treat neurological disorders linked to protein misfolding. Protein Misfolding. Nova Science Publishers, Inc. Editor Cian B. O’Doherty and Adam C. Byrne *#

Russelakis-Carneiro, M., Hetz C., Castilla, J. and Soto, C. (2004).
Neurodegeneration induced by prion protein misfolding. In “Neuroprotection: Models, Mechanisms, Therapies” M. Bahr (Ed.). Wiley-VCH.*

Morales R., Hetz C. and Soto C. (2004).
Signaling Pathways Controlling Prion Neurotoxicity: Role of Endoplasmic reticulum stress-mediated Apoptosis. Neurodegeneration in Prion Disorders. Klewer. Editor: David Brown. *


Book 


Book editor: e-book “Protein Misfolding Disorders: A Trip into the ER”. 2009. Bentham Science Publishers.
In press http://www.bentham.org/ebooks/9781608050130/index.htm

 

Book editor: “BCL2 Protein Family: Functions beyond Apoptosis». 2010. Bioscience publishers.
In press http://www.landesbioscience.com/books/iu/id/3413/