SnapShot: Selective Autophagy

There are various types of autophagy, which can be categorized as nonselective or selective. Macroautophagy is an evolutionarily conserved process through which cells degrade and recycle cytoplasm. Nonselective macroautophagy randomly engulfs a portion of the cytoplasm into autophagosomes and then delivers them to the vacuole (in fungi or plants) or the lysosome (in other higher eukaryotes) for degradation. Selective macroautophagy, however,...