From Christian de Duve to Yoshinori Ohsumi: More to autophagy than just dining at home
Christian de Duve first coined the expression “autophagy” during his seminal work on the discovery of lysosomes, which led to him being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974. The term was adopted to distinguish degradation of intracellular components from the uptake and degradati...
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Elsevier
2017-02-01
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2319417016303274 |