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autophagosome
noun
A phagosome in which part of a cell's own cytoplasm is digested
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By studying the process in yeast cells, Ohsumi identified the main genes involved in autophagy and showed how the proteins they code for come together to build the autophagosome membrane.
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After these mice had spent half an hour on a treadmill, she found that the number of autophagosomes in their muscles had increased, and it went on increasing until they had been running for 80 minutes.To find out what, if anything, this exercise-boosted autophagy was doing for mice, the team engineered a second strain that was unable to respond this way.
It refers to the process in which cellular junk is captured and sealed in sack-like membranes, called autophagosomes.
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