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Up for grabs; trashing peroxisomes
Author(s) -
van der Zand Adabella,
Reggiori Fulvio
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
the embo journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.484
H-Index - 392
eISSN - 1460-2075
pISSN - 0261-4189
DOI - 10.1038/emboj.2012.152
Subject(s) - biology , peroxisome , computational biology , evolutionary biology , genetics , gene
In this issue, Motley et al identify Atg36 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and show it has a function related to Atg30 in methylotrophic yeasts in bringing peroxisomes to the site of autophagosomes biogenesis to coordinate their autophagy (pexophagy).