How Autophagy Works

There are five steps of autophagosome biogenesis: induction, expansion, vesicle completion, fusion, and cargo degradation.

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MARIA AND PETER HOEY

There are five steps of autophagosome biogenesis: induction, expansion, vesicle completion, fusion, and cargo degradation. While much has been learned over the past few decades about how this process works, the big question that remains is where the double lipid bilayers originate.

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