Nature2 个月
Autophagy: from phenomenology to molecular understanding in less than a decade
In 2000, it was suggested to me that “Autophagy will be the wave of the future; it will become the new apoptosis.” Few people would have agreed at the time, but this statement turned out to be ...
Nature28 天
Role of autophagy in cancer
Autophagy is a cellular degradation pathway for the clearance of damaged or superfluous proteins and organelles. The recycling of these intracellular constituents also serves as an alternative ...
Gene editing approach sheds light on how mitochondria drive autophagy
A team led by Drs. Antonio Zorzano and Saska Ivanova at IRB Barcelona has published a new study in the journal Autophagy that sheds light on the connections between the MFN1 and MFN2 proteins and ...
AZoLifeSciences on MSN2 个月
Weak Molecular Interactions Trigger Autophagy in Cells
The study has been published in the scientific journal Nature Cell Biology. In order for the degradation of cellular ...