Feast or famine: autophagy control and engineering in eukaryotic cell culture

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 518-526

  Zustiak, Matthew P ^a,c   Pollack, Judith K ^b   Marten, Mark R ^b   Betenbaugh, Michael J ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b University of Marylandw Baltimore County   (United States)

^c SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; BIODEGRADATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL DEATH; CYTOLOGY; FOOD SUPPLY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MAMMALS; PROCESS ENGINEERING;

AUTOPHAGY; BIOCHEMICAL PATHWAYS; CELL SURVIVALS; DEGRADATIVE PROCESS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; FILAMENTOUS FUNGUS; MAMMALIAN CELLS; MONITORING METHODS;

CELLS;

AUTOPHAGY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELL CULTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

AUTOPHAGY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; PROTEIN ENGINEERING;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; MAMMALIA;

EID: 53249105322     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2008.07.007     Document Type: Review

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