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Liver autophagy: physiology and pathology
1 Jun 2012
Abstract excerpt
Autophagy has long been thought of as a bulk degradation system in which cytoplasmic components are sequestered by double-membrane structures called autophagosomes, and the contents are then degraded after autophagosomes fuse with lysosomes. Genetic experiments in yeast identified a set of Autophagy-related (ATG) genes that are essential for autophagy. We have since elucidated many of the molecular underpinnings...
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