The total market volume of SiNPs ranked second among manufactured nanoparticles in 2017. [2] This large-scale production and widespread application make SiNPs more of a risk to human health and the environment. Numerous studies have shown that SiNPs cause varying degrees of damage to the cardiovascular system, the lungs, the liver, and the reproductive system. [3][4][5][6][7] As a major metabolic clearance organ, the liver is the main target of SiNP toxicity. SiNPs can be retained in the liver for up to 60 days after intravenous administration in rats [8] and can cause hepatocyte steatosis, fibrosis, granuloma, and other lesions. [9,10] Therefore, it is urgent to explore the biological effects of SiNPs and underlying mechanisms of hepatotoxicity.Autophagy is a highly conserved degradative process that maintains cellular homeostasis by removing misfolded proteins and damaged organelles via the lysosome. [11] There are three types of autophagy: microautophagy, chaperonemediated autophagy (CMA), and macroautophagy. Both microautophagy and CMA exclusively depend on degradation by the lysosome and do not involve autophagosomes. Macroautophagy/autophagy is the most extensively studied pathway and consists of multiple sequential steps: initiation, elongation, maturation, fusion, and degradation. [12] In addition to non-selective, "in bulk" autophagy can occur in selective manners and be initiated by mitochondria, peroxisomes, nuclei, ribosomes, or lipid droplets (LDs). [13] Furthermore, chaperone-assisted selective autophagy (CASA) is a specialized form of macroautophagy whereby substrate proteins are ubiquitinated and targeted to lysosomal degradation by chaperone and cochaperone proteins. [14] The substrate proteins in CASA do not possess a KFERQ motif for heat shock cognate protein 70 (HSC70) recognition, in which it differs from CMA. In CASA, the cargo proteins are recognized by the CASA complex, which comprises the chaperones HSC70 and heat shock protein family B (small) member 8 (HSPB8) coupled by the cochaperone BAG3. [14] Autophagy is the predominant biological process triggered by nanoparticles. Many nanoparticles have been reported to induce autophagy, such as iron oxide nanoparticles, [15] gold nanoparticles, [16] CoCrMo nanoparticles [17] and silica nanoparticles (SiNPs). [18][19][20] Different Silica nanoparticles (SiNPs) are one of the most common inorganic nanomaterials. Autophagy is the predominant biological response to nanoparticles and transcription factor EB (TFEB) is a master regulator of the autophagylysosome pathway. Previous studies show that SiNPs induce autophagosome accumulation, yet the precise underlying mechanisms remain uncertain. The present study investigates the role of TFEB during SiNP-induced autophagy. SiNP-induced TFEB nuclear translocation is verified using immunofluorescence and western blot assay. The regulation of TFEB is proved to be via EIF2AK3 pathway. A TFEB knockout (KO) cell line is constructed to validate the TFEB involvement in SiNP-induced autophagy. The transcriptomes ...