Autophagy: A Forty-Year Search for a Missing Membrane Source
Open Access
- 14 February 2006
- journal article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Biology
- Vol. 4 (2) , e36
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040036
Abstract
Autophagy is central to diverse biological processes in eukaryotes including animal development and cellular survival, and also to neurodegenerative diseases, but the origin of the membranes that make up autophagic vesicles is unknown.Keywords
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