A small molecule autophagy enhancer that induces autophagy independently of rapamycin in mammalian cells and enhances the clearance of autophagy substrates such as mutant huntingtin and A53T alpha-synuclein; reduces toxicity in Huntington's disease models.

ML-SA5 is an MCOLN1 agonist and arrests autophagic flux by perturbing fusion between autophagosomes and lysosomes.

XRK3F2 is an inhibitor of the p62-ZZ domain, blunts MM-induced Runx2 suppression in vitro, and induces new bone formation and remodeling in the presence of tumor in vivo.