Autophagy (or autophagocytosis; from the Ancient Greek αὐτόφαγος, autóphagos, meaning "self-devouring" and κύτος, kýtos, meaning "hollow") is the natural...
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Look up autophagy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Autophagy is a process in cellular biology. Autophagy may also refer to: Autophagia, a mental disorder...
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Autophagy database(s) aim to provide a comprehensive list of autophagy-related genes and proteins, whether they are identified as orthologs or homologs...
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Cell biology (section Autophagy)
prevent autophagy, while others utilize autophagy elements for intracellular development or cellular splitting. Macro autophagy, micro autophagy, and chaperon-mediated...
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Autophagy is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of cell autophagy. It is published by Taylor & Francis and the editor-in-chief...
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born February 9, 1945) is a Japanese cell biologist specializing in autophagy, the process that cells use to destroy and recycle cellular components...
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Self-cannibalism (redirect from Autophagy (feeding))
autophagy, which specifically denotes the normal process of self-degradation by cells. While typically used only for this specific process, autophagy...
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Autophagy protein 5 (ATG5) is a protein that, in humans, is encoded by the ATG5 gene located on chromosome 6. It is an E3 ubi autophagic cell death. ATG5...
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Chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA) refers to the chaperone-dependent selection of soluble cytosolic proteins that are then targeted to lysosomes and directly...
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selective autophagy is a cellular process for the selective, ubiquitin-dependent degradation of chaperone-bound proteins in lysosomes. Autophagy (Greek:...
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Autophagy-related protein 13 also known as ATG13 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KIAA0652 gene. ATG13 is an autophagy factor required for...
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cell proliferation, cell motility, cell survival, protein synthesis, autophagy, and transcription. As a core component of mTORC2, mTOR also functions...
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Intracellular digestion (section Autophagy)
molecules. Generally, autophagy includes three small branches, which are macroautophagy, microautophagy, and chaperone-mediated autophagy. Most organisms that...
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the MAP1LC3B gene. LC3 is a central protein in the autophagy pathway where it functions in autophagy substrate selection and autophagosome biogenesis....
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229–32 Martin, S J (August 2011). "Oncogene-induced autophagy and the Goldilocks principle". Autophagy. 7 (8): 922–3. doi:10.4161/auto.7.8.15821. hdl:2262/73233...
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endocytosis, while material from the inside of the cell is digested through autophagy. The sizes of the organelles vary greatly—the larger ones can be more...
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Autophagy-related protein 101 also known as ATG101 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the C12orf44 gene (chromosome 12 open reading frame 44)....
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is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ULK1 gene. Unc-51-like autophagy-activating kinases 1 and 2 (ULK1/2) are two similar isoforms of an enzyme...
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newer line of study has connected ROS levels and autophagy. ROS can also induce cell death through autophagy, which is a self-catabolic process involving...
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Parkinson's Disease include protein aggregation in Lewy bodies, disruption of autophagy, changes in cell metabolism or mitochondrial function, neuroinflammation...
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theorized to promote autophagy via the MAPK pathway by inhibiting phosphorylation of raf, or possibly by inhibiting cytosolic autophagy-related protein acetylation...
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Cell death (section Autophagy)
organism of which the cells are part. Apoptosis or Type I cell-death, and autophagy or Type II cell-death are both forms of programmed cell death, while necrosis...
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ATG8 (section In autophagy)
Autophagy-related protein 8 (Atg8) is a ubiquitin-like protein required for the formation of autophagosomal membranes. The transient conjugation of Atg8...
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York. He is known for his discovery of genes controlling autophagy (cell self-eating), autophagy functions in central nervous system, molecular mechanism...
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encoded by the BECN1 gene. Beclin-1 is a mammalian ortholog of the yeast autophagy-related gene 6 (Atg6) and BEC-1 in the C. elegans nematode. This protein...
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(activating molecule in Beclin1-regulated autophagy) is a protein that is able to regulate cancer cells through autophagy. AMBRA1 is described as a mechanism...
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X-linked myopathy with excessive autophagy (XMEA) is a rare childhood onset disease characterized by slow progressive vacuolation and atrophy of skeletal...
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director of the Autophagy, Inflammation and Metabolism (AIM) Center of Biomedical Research Excellence. The AIM center promotes autophagy research nationally...
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Autophagy related 16 like 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ATG16L1 gene. This protein is characterized as a subunit of the autophagy-related...
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