Cargo recognition and trafficking in selective autophagy

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 495-501

  Stolz, Alexandra ^a   Ernst, Andreas ^a   Dikic, Ivan ^a,b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATG11 PROTEIN; ATG12 PROTEIN; ATG8 PROTEIN; AUTOPHAGY PROTEIN 5; CARDIOLIPIN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN LIGHT CHAIN 3; PROTEIN BNIP3; RAB PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 2; UBIQUITIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AUTOLYSOSOME; AUTOPHAGOSOME; BACTERIAL CLEARANCE; CROHN DISEASE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENDOSOME; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MITOPHAGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVIEW; SELECTIVE AUTOPHAGY; UBIQUITINATION;

ANIMALS; AUTOPHAGY; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; TRANSPORT VESICLES;

EID: 84901815187     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: 14764679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb2979     Document Type: Review

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