Pexophagy: The Selective Autophagy of Peroxisomes

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Summary

This work has found that upon glucose- or ethanol-induced catabolite inactivation of metabolically superfluous peroxisomes are rapidly and selectively degraded within the vacuole by a process called pexophagy, the selective removal of per oxisomes by autophagy-like processes.

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review
Published
2005-04-13
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Keywords

Peroxisome, Yarrowia, Biology, Yeast, Biochemistry

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