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ReviewNature reviews. Molecular cell biology2013

The autophagosome: origins unknown, biogenesis complex.

Christopher A Lamb, Tamotsu Yoshimori, Sharon A Tooze

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Review in Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 734 papers.

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734citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

734 citing papers in PubMed.

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674 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Christopher A Lamb
Tamotsu Yoshimori
Sharon A Tooze

Funding

Cancer Research UK 15153
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Healthy cells use autophagy as a general 'housekeeping' mechanism and to survive stress, including stress induced by nutrient deprivation. Autophagy is initiated at the isolation membrane (originally termed the phagophore), and the coordinated action of ATG (autophagy-related) proteins results in the expansion of this membrane to form the autophagosome. Although the biogenesis of the isolation membrane and the autophagosome is complex and incompletely understood, insight has been gained into the molecular processes involved in initiating the isolation membrane, the source from which this originates (for example, it was recently proposed that the isolation membrane forms from the mitochondria-associated endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membrane (MAM)) and the role of ATG proteins and the vesicular trafficking machinery in autophagosome formation.

Indexed as

AutophagyAnimalsEndocytosisEndoplasmic ReticulumGolgi ApparatusHumansIntracellular MembranesMechanistic Target of Rapamycin Complex 1MitochondriaMultiprotein ComplexesPhagosomesSignal TransductionTOR Serine-Threonine KinasesVesicular Transport ProteinsMechanistic Target of Rapamycin Complex 1Multiprotein ComplexesTOR Serine-Threonine KinasesVesicular Transport Proteins

Identifiers

PMID24201109

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