Oxidative stress-mediated NFκB phosphorylation upregulates p62/SQSTM1 and promotes retinal pigmented epithelial cell survival through increased autophagy

• Chunjuan Song ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chunjuan Song, Sayak K. Mitter

  Current address: Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation, Alachua, Florida, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Sayak K. Mitter ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chunjuan Song, Sayak K. Mitter

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

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• Xiaoping Qi,

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

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• Eleni Beli,

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

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• Haripriya V. Rao,

  Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Jindong Ding,

  Affiliation Departments of Ophthalmology and Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Colin S. Ip,

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

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• Hongmei Gu,

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

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• Debra Akin,

  Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• William A. Dunn Jr.,

  Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Catherine Bowes Rickman,

  Affiliation Departments of Ophthalmology and Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Alfred S. Lewin,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Maria B. Grant,

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

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• Michael E. Boulton

  * E-mail: mboulton@iupui.edu

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

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