Route to destruction: Autophagosomes SNARE lysosomes

Autophagy allows cells to encapsulate parts of their cytosol into unique double-membrane structures. These autophagosomes mature to fuse with lysosomes and deliver the enclosed contents for degradation. Three recent papers, including one by Takáts et al. (2013. J. Cell Biol. http://dx.doi.org/10.108...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Krämer, Helmut
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: The Rockefeller University Press 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3653355/