Accumulation of an antidepressant in vesiculogenic membranes of yeast cells triggers autophagy.

Many antidepressants are cationic amphipaths, which spontaneously accumulate in natural or reconstituted membranes in the absence of their specific protein targets. However, the clinical relevance of cellular membrane accumulation by antidepressants in the human brain is unknown and hotly debated. H...

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Main Authors: Jingqiu Chen, Daniel Korostyshevsky, Sean Lee, Ethan O Perlstein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3329523?pdf=render