Image: Autophagy diagram PLoS Biology

Description: Diagram and images of autophagy from a 2006 PLoS Biology review. (A) Diagram of autophagy; (B) Electron micrograph of autophagic structures in the fatbody of a fruit fly larva; (C) Fluorescently labeled autophagosomes in liver cells of starved mice.
Title: Autophagy diagram PLoS Biology
Credit: Autophagy: A Forty-Year Search for a Missing Membrane Source. PLoS Biol 4(2): e36. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0040036
Author: Juhasz G, Neufeld TP. Original images by Ryan Scott (B) and Dr. Noboru Mizushima (C).
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