Open AccessWhen cells make a meal of themselves
Author(s) -
Mitch Leslie
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
the journal of cell biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.414
H-Index - 380
eISSN - 1540-8140
pISSN - 0021-9525
DOI - 10.1083/jcb.1813iti3
Subject(s) - biology , cytoplasm , reuse , microbiology and biotechnology , key (lock) , ecology
![Graphic][1] In starving cells, ULK1 and ULK2 gather on incipient autophagosomes (yellow dots). Cells take recycling to the extreme. If they run low on food, they digest and reuse some of their own cytoplasm. [Hara et al.][2] have discovered a key protein that helps get this
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