The autophagosome: Origins unknown, biogenesis complex

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 759-774

  Lamb, Christopher A ^a   Yoshimori, Tamotsu ^b   Tooze, Sharon A ^a  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; AUTOPHAGY PROTEIN 10; AUTOPHAGY PROTEIN 101; AUTOPHAGY PROTEIN 12; AUTOPHAGY PROTEIN 13; AUTOPHAGY PROTEIN 14L; AUTOPHAGY PROTEIN 16L1; AUTOPHAGY PROTEIN 2A; AUTOPHAGY PROTEIN 2B; AUTOPHAGY PROTEIN 3; AUTOPHAGY PROTEIN 4; AUTOPHAGY PROTEIN 5; AUTOPHAGY PROTEIN 7; AUTOPHAGY PROTEIN 9A; AUTOPHAGY PROTEIN 9B; BECLIN 1; CLATHRIN ASSEMBLY PROTEIN; DYNAMIN; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN COMPLEX 1; OXYGEN REGULATED PROTEIN 150; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN P62; RAB1 PROTEIN; RAB11 PROTEIN; RHEB PROTEIN; SNARE PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

AUTOLYSOSOME; AUTOPHAGOSOME; AUTOPHAGY; BIOGENESIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL EXPANSION; CELL HYPOXIA; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRESS; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VACUOLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHAPERONE-MEDIATED AUTOPHAGY; COATED VESICLE; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS; ENDOSOME; GOLGI COMPLEX; ISOLATION MEMBRANE; LYSOSOME; LYSOSOME MEMBRANE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; AUTOPHAGY; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; GOLGI APPARATUS; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; MITOCHONDRIA; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PHAGOSOMES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; VESICULAR TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 84888380983     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm3696     Document Type: Review

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