Self-digestion As A Means Of Survival

Friday, February 27, 2009 - 10:14 in Biology & Nature

In times of starvation, cells tighten their belts: they start to digest their own proteins and cellular organs. Biochemists, cell biologists and geneticists have just come up with an explanation as to how autophagosomes know exactly which proteins and organelles they should degrade.

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