Induction of genuine autophagy by cationic lipids in mammalian cells

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Autophagy is a cellular stress response that results in the activation of a lysosomal degradation pathway. In this report, we showed that cationic lipids, a common-used class of transfection reagents, induced genuine autophagy in mammalian cells. Extensive LC3 dot formation was observed by treatment with cationic lipids (with or without DNA), but not neutral lipids, in a HeLa cell line stably expressing GFP-LC3...

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