Identification of autophagy as a longevity-assurance mechanism in the aging model Podospora anserina

Autophagy

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 822-834

  Knuppertz, Laura ^a   Hamann, Andrea ^a   Pampaloni, Francesco ^b   Stelzer, Ernst ^b   Osiewacz, Heinz D ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; ATG1; ATG8; Autophagy; Podospora anserina

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

AGING; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ASCOSPORE; AUTOPHAGOSOME; AUTOPHAGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; EUKARYOTE; GERMINATION; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; MITOCHONDRIAL DYNAMICS; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; PODOSPORA ANSERINA; PROTEIN HOMEOSTASIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SUPPLEMENTATION; YEAST; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEFICIENCY; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHAGOSOME; PHYSIOLOGY; PODOSPORA; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM;

AGING; AUTOPHAGY; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LONGEVITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITROGEN; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PHAGOSOMES; PODOSPORA; PROTEOLYSIS;

EID: 84899766412     PISSN: 15548627     EISSN: 15548635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/auto.28148     Document Type: Article

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