Autophagy-like processes are involved in lipid droplet degradation in Auxenochlorella protothecoides during the heterotrophy-autotrophy transition

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 5, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Zhao, Li ^a   Dai, Junbiao ^a   Wu, Qingyu ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Atg4; Atg8; Autophagic vacuole; Lipid droplet; Microalgae

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907361695     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00400     Document Type: Article

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