Autophagy: process and function - PubMed (original) (raw)
Review
. 2007 Nov 15;21(22):2861-73.
doi: 10.1101/gad.1599207.
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- DOI: 10.1101/gad.1599207
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Autophagy: process and function
Noboru Mizushima. Genes Dev. 2007.
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Abstract
Autophagy is an intracellular degradation system that delivers cytoplasmic constituents to the lysosome. Despite its simplicity, recent progress has demonstrated that autophagy plays a wide variety of physiological and pathophysiological roles, which are sometimes complex. Autophagy consists of several sequential steps--sequestration, transport to lysosomes, degradation, and utilization of degradation products--and each step may exert different function. In this review, the process of autophagy is summarized, and the role of autophagy is discussed in a process-based manner.
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