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J R Coll Physicians Edinb
; 46(4): 228-233, 2016 Dec.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-28504774
RESUMO
On 3 October 2016, Japanese cell biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 'for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy'; autophagy being an intracellular degradation pathway that helps maintain cytoplasmic homeostasis. This commentary discusses Ohsumi's Nobel prize-winning work in context, before explaining the clinical relevance of autophagy.