Authors

    Language

    English

    Publication Date

    6-1-2022

    Journal

    Autophagy

    DOI

    10.1080/15548627.2022.2080384

    PMID

    35604109

    PMCID

    PMC9225299

    PubMedCentral® Posted Date

    5-29-2022

    PubMedCentral® Full Text Version

    Post-print

    Abstract

    During an animal's life, many cells undergo apoptosis, a form of genetically programmed cell death. These cells are swiftly engulfed by other cells through phagocytosis and subsequently degraded inside phagosomes. Phagocytosis and macroautophagy/autophagy are two different cellular events: whereas phagocytosis is a cell-eat-cell event, autophagy, or "self-eating", occurs within one cell, resulting in the enveloping of protein aggregates or damaged organelles within double-membrane autophagosomes. Despite this critical difference, these two events share common features: (1) both are means of safe garbage disposal; (2) both phagosomes and autophagosomes fuse to lysosomes, which drive the degradation of their contents; and (3) both events facilitate the recycling of biological materials. Previously, whether autophagosomes

    Keywords

    Animals, Apoptosis, Autophagosomes, Autophagy, Lysosomes, Phagosomes, autophagosomes, C. elegans, CED-1, crosstalk, degradation of apoptotic cells, LGG-1/LGG-2, membrane fusion, membrane signaling, phagocytosis, phagosomes

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