Autophagy shows its animal side.

McPhee, Christina K; Baehrecke, Eric H · Cell · 2010

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

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.