Control of the Autophagy Maturation Step by the MAPK ERK and p38: Lessons from Environmental Carcinogens

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Macroautophagy (hereafter referred to as autophagy) is the major degradative pathway of long-lived proteins and organelles that fulfils key functions in cell survival, tissue remodeling and tumor suppression. Consistently, alterations in autophagy have been involved in a growing list of pathologies including toxic injury, infections, neurodegeneration, myopathies and cancers. Although critical, the molecular...

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