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FEBS Lett
January 2024
Institute of Cellular Biochemistry, Goettingen University Medical Centre, Goettingen, Germany.
Plant Cell Physiol
July 2018
Cell Biology Center, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan.
Autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved intracellular vacuolar process. Since Christian de Duve first coined the term 'autophagy' in 1963, it had not been well understood at the molecular level until much later, due to limitations in biochemical approaches and/or morphological approaches posed by electron microscopy. An important milestone was achieved with the isolation and identification of autophagy-related (ATG) genes by genetic screening using yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
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April 2017
Department of Anatomy, Cell and Developmental Biology, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter stny. 1/C, Budapest, 1117, Hungary.
Autophagy is a lysosomal degradation pathway of eukaryotic cells that is highly conserved from yeast to mammals. During this process, cooperating protein complexes are recruited in a hierarchic order to the phagophore assembly site (PAS) to mediate the elongation and closure of double-membrane vesicles called autophagosomes, which sequester cytosolic components and deliver their content to the endolysosomal system for degradation. As a major cytoprotective mechanism, autophagy plays a key role in the stress response against nutrient starvation, hypoxia, and infections.
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