Open AccessAutophagy Shows Its Animal Side
Author(s) -
Christina McPhee,
Eric H. Baehrecke
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 26.304
H-Index - 776
eISSN - 1097-4172
pISSN - 0092-8674
DOI - 10.1016/j.cell.2010.05.036
Subject(s) - biology , autophagy , microbiology and biotechnology , genetics , computational biology , apoptosis
Most autophagy genes have been discovered in the single-celled yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and little is known about autophagy genes that are specific to multicellular animals. In this issue, Tian et al. (2010) now identify four new autophagy genes: one specific to the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans and three conserved from worms to mammals.
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