Role of autophagy in Caenorhabditis elegans

FEBS Letters

Volumn 584, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1335-1341

  Kovacs, Attila Lajos ^a   Zhang, Hong ^b  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Autophagy; Caenorhabditis elegans; PGL granule

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; ION CHANNEL; POLYGLUTAMINE; PROTEIN ATG8; PROTEIN P62; PROTEIN SEPA 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; PEPTIDE;

AGING; APOPTOSIS; AUTOPHAGY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CATABOLISM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC MODEL; GERM LINE; LIFESPAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REVIEW; SOMATIC CELL; STARVATION; SURVIVAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; YEAST; ANIMAL; CELL GRANULE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

AGING; ANIMALS; AUTOPHAGY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; PEPTIDES;

EID: 77950483610     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2010.02.002     Document Type: Review

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