AAAD	Aromatic amino acid decarboxylase
AD	Alzheimer’s disease
AKT1	RAC-alpha serine/threonine-protein kinase
ALS	Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
AMBRA1	Autophagy and beclin-1 regulator 1
AMP	Adenosine monophosphate
AMPK	AMP protein kinase
AP1/2	Adaptor protein ½
APP	Amyloid precursor protein
Arp2/3	Actin-related proteins 2/3
ATG9	Autophagy-related protein 9
ATG13	Autophagy-related protein 13
ATG101	Autophagy-related protein 101
BARA	β-α Repeated autophagy
BCL-2	Apoptosis regulator B-cell lymphoma 2 Bcl-2
BCL-XL	B-cell lymphoma-extra large
CALB1	Calbindin-D28K
Cav1.2	Voltage-dependent L-type calcium channel subunit α-1C
Cav1.3	Calcium channel, voltage-dependent, L-type, α-1D subunit
CCD	Coiled-coil domain
CI-MPR	Cation-independent-mannose-6-phosphate receptor
CMA	Chaperone-mediated autophagy
COX-1	Cyclooxygenase-1
CSF	Cerebral spinal fluid
CSPα	Cysteine-string protein-α
DAT	Dopamine transporter
DLB	Dementia with Lewy bodies
DMT1	Divalent metal transporter 1
ECD	Evolutionarily conserved domain
ER	Endoplasmic reticulum
FAK	Focal adhesion kinase
Fe-S	Iron-sulfur cluster
FIP200	FAK family kinase-interacting protein of 200 kDa
FPN1	Ferroportin
Ft	Ferritin
FtH1	Ferritin heavy chain
FtL	Ferritin light chain
FTLD	Frontotemporal lobar dementia
FtMt	Mitochondrial ferritin
GA	Ginkgolic acid
GABA	γ-Aminobutyric acid
GABARAP	γ-Aminobutyric acid receptor-associated protein
GABARAPL1	γ-Aminobutyric acid receptor-associated protein-like 1
GABARAPL2	γ-Aminobutyric acid receptor-associated protein-like 2
GABRR3	γ-Aminobutyric acid receptor subunit rho-3
HD	Huntington’s disease
HERC2	E3 ubiquitin protein ligase 2
HOPS	Homotypic fusion and vacuole protein sorting
HP1	Hydrophobic pocket 1
HRB	HIV-1 Rev-binding-protein
Hsc70	Heat shock cognate 70 kDa
Hsp	Heat shock protein
Htt	Huntingtin
IRE	Iron-responsive element
IRP1	Iron regulatory protein 1
IMM	Inner-mitochondrial membrane
KO	Knockout
LAMP2a	Lysosomal-associated membrane protein 2a
LB	Lewy body
LC3	Microtubule-associated proteins 1A/1B light chain 3
LIP	Labile iron pool
LIR	LC3 interacting region
LN	Lewy neurites
MPTP	1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine
MRI	Magnetic resonance imaging
MSA	Multiple system atrophy
mTOR	Mammalian target of rapamycin
mTORC1	mTOR complex 1
Munc-13	Mammalian uncoordinated 13
Munc-18	Mammalian uncoordinated 18
MVB	Multi-vesicular body
MWW	Weighted-average molecular weight
NAC	Non-amyloid component
NBIA5	Neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation 5
NCOA4	Nuclear co-activator 4
NLRP3	NOD-like receptor protein 3
NOD	Nucleotide binding domain
Nrf2	Nuclear factor erythroid 2–related factor 2
6-OHDA	6-Hydroxydopamine
PAWR	PRKC-apoptosis-WT1-regulator
PCBP2	Poly-r(C)-binding protein 2
PD	Parkinson’s disease
PE	Phosphatidylethanolamine
PI3KC3	Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase catalytic subunit type 3
PI3P	Phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate
PNN	Pedunculopontine nucleus
Rab1a	RAS-related protein in brain 1a
Rab7	RAS-related protein Rab-7a
RB1CC1	RB1-inducible coiled-coil protein 1
RPE	Retinal pigmented epithelial cells
SENP	Sentrin-specific protease
SGT	Small glutamate-rich tetratricopeptide repeat-containing protein
SMV	Small single membrane vesicles
SNAP25	Synaptosomal-associated protein of 25 kDa
SNARE	Soluble N-ethylmaleimide sensitive attachment factor receptor
SNpc	Substantia nigra pars compacta
SNpr	Substantia nigra pars reticulata
SQSTM1	Sequestosome-1 (p62)
STEAP1	Six transmembrane epithelial antigen of the prostate-1
STX17	Syntaxin-17
SUMO1	Small-ubiquitin-like modifier 1
SYNGAP	Synaptic Ras-like GTPase-activating protein 1
TBC1D5	TBC1 domain family member 5
TFEB	Transcription factor EB
TFR1	Transferrin receptor 1
TFR2	Transferrin receptor 2
TH	Tyrosine hydroxylase
TGN	trans-Golgi network
TLR4	Toll-like receptor 4
TOM20	Translocase of outer membrane of 20 kDa
TOMM20	Mitochondrial import receptor subunit TOM20 homolog
t-SNARE	Target SNARE
UBA	Ubiquitin-associated
ULK1	Unc-51 like autophagy activating kinase
Unc-51	Serine/threonine-protein kinase unc-51
UPS	Ubiquitin/proteasome system
UVRAG	UV radiation resistance-associated gene protein
VAMP2	Vesicle-associated membrane protein 2 (also known as synaptobrevin)
VGCC	Voltage-gated calcium channel
VMAT2	Vesicular-monoamine transporter
VPS26	Vacuolar protein sorting-associated protein 26A
VPS29	Vacuolar protein sorting-associated protein 29
VPS35	VPS35 endosomal protein-sorting factor-like
v-SNARE	Vesicular SNARE
WASH	Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome protein and SCAR homologue
WIPI2	WD repeat domain phosphoinositide-interacting protein 2