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Selective autophagy in budding yeast

Cell Death and Differentiation, ISSN: 1350-9047, Vol: 20, Issue: 1, Page: 43-48
2013
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Autophagy is a bulk degradation system, widely conserved in eukaryotes. Upon starvation, autophagosomes enclose a portion of the cytoplasm and ultimately fuse with the vacuole. The contents of autophagosomes are degraded in the vacuole, and recycled to maintain the intracellular amino-acid pool required for protein synthesis and survival under starvation conditions. Previously, autophagy was thought to be an essentially nonselective pathway, but recent evidence suggests that autophagosomes carry selected cargoes. These studies have identified two categories of selective autophagy-one highly selective and dependent on autophagy-related 11 (Atg11); another, less selective, that is, independent of Atg11. The former, selective category comprises the Cvt pathway, mitophagy, pexophagy and piecemeal microautophagy of the nucleus; acetaldehyde dehydrogenase 6 degradation and ribophagy belong to the latter, less selective category. In this review, I focus on the mechanisms and the physiological roles of these selective types of autophagy. © 2013 Macmillan Publishers Limited All rights reserved.

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