Autophagy (from ancient Greek “self-consuming”) refers to the process in cells by which they break down and utilize their own components.
This process is triggered by a limitation of nutrients, among other things. When starving, cells break down parts of their own "inventory" to gain energy and nutrients in order to survive. Cells are selective and prefer to break down cell components that are no longer fully functional. These are later recreated when the nutrient situation improves.
This process will also
This process is
State of hunger
Self-digestion
Self-cleaning program
Doctoral thesis
I selectively deprived human cells of nutrients in cell culture and observed how their proteome (the totality of the more than 12,000 different proteins in humans) changed.
Proteomics with mass spectrometry