Autophagy Gene Disruption Reveals a Non-vacuolar Cell Death Pathway in Dictyostelium

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Types of cell death include apoptosis, necrosis, and autophagic cell death. The latter can be defined as death of cells containing autophagosomes, autophagic bodies, and/or vacuoles. Are autophagy and vacuolization causes, consequences, or side effects in cell death with autophagy? Would control of autophagy suffice to control this type of cell death? We disrupted the atg1 autophagy gene in Dictyostelium...

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