A comparative in-silico analysis of autophagy proteins in ciliates

Autophagy serves as a turnover mechanism for the recycling of redundant and/or damaged macromolecules present in eukaryotic cells to re-use them under starvation conditions via a double-membrane structure known as autophagosome. A set of eukaryotic genes called autophagy-related genes (ATGs) orchest...

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Main Authors: Erhan Aslan, Nurçin Küçükoğlu, Muhittin Arslanyolu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2017-01-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/2878.pdf