Lysophagy: A Method for Monitoring Lysosomal Rupture Followed by Autophagy-Dependent Recovery

Selective autophagy recognizes specific targets, including damaged mitochondria (mitophagy), aggregated proteins (aggrephagy), and invading bacteria (xenophagy) to engulf by isolation membrane, and degrades toxic materials within lysosomes. We recently revealed that a membrane-damaged lysosome itself also becomes a target of autophagy and named this process lysophagy. In this chapter, we describe methods for monitoring lysophagy; detecting lysosomal damage by staining of galectin and study the subsequent autophagic process in cultured mammalian cells.