Cell. 2010 Jun 11;141(6):922-4. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2010.05.036.
Cell
Christina K McPhee, Eric H Baehrecke
PMID: 20550928 PMCID: PMC3915719 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2010.05.036
Most autophagy genes have been discovered in the single-celled yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and little is known about autophagy genes that are specific to multicellular animals. In this issue, Tian et al. (2010) now identify four new autophagy genes: one specific to the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans and three conserved from worms to mammals.
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