Autophagosome formation in relation to the endoplasmic reticulum

Abstract Autophagy is a process in which a myriad membrane structures called autophagosomes are formed de novo in a single cell, which deliver the engulfed substrates into lysosomes for degradation. The size of the autophagosomes is relatively uniform in non-selective autophagy and variable in selec...

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Main Authors: Yo-hei Yamamoto, Takeshi Noda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-10-01
Series:Journal of Biomedical Science
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12929-020-00691-6