Dynamics and diversity in autophagy mechanisms: Lessons from yeast

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 458-467

  Nakatogawa, Hitoshi ^a,b   Suzuki, Kuninori ^a   Kamada, Yoshiaki ^c   Ohsumi, Yoshinori ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATG1 KINASE; ATG12 PROTEIN; ATG13 PROTEIN; ATG17 PROTEIN; ATG29 PROTEIN; ATG31 PROTEIN; ATG8 PROTEIN; AUTOPHAGY RELATED GENE PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; RAPAMYCIN; UBIQUITIN CONJUGATING ENZYME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AUTOPHAGY; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONJUGATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MEMBRANE FORMATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STARVATION; SYNTHESIS; YEAST;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; ANIMALS; AUTOPHAGY; HUMANS; PHAGOSOMES; PROTEIN KINASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; UBIQUITIN;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 67649467294     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm2708     Document Type: Review

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