Open AccessChaperone-mediated autophagy at a glance
Author(s) -
Susmita Kaushik,
Urmi Bandyopadhyay,
Sunandini Sridhar,
Roberta Kiffin,
Marta MartínezVicente,
Maria Kon,
Samantha J. Orenstein,
Esther Wong,
Ana María Cuervo
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of cell science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.384
H-Index - 278
eISSN - 1477-9137
pISSN - 0021-9533
DOI - 10.1242/jcs.073874
Subject(s) - biology , autophagy , chaperone (clinical) , microbiology and biotechnology , computational biology , genetics , apoptosis , medicine , pathology
Chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA) is an intracellular catabolic pathway that mediates the degradation of a selective subset of cytosolic proteins in lysosomes ([Dice, 2007][1]; [Cuervo, 2010][2]; [Kon and Cuervo, 2010][3]; [Orenstein and Cuervo, 2010][4]). The term autophagy (or self-eating) is
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