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Model for autophagy including the final step of amino acid efflux. Autophagy is depicted as occurring in five discrete stages as shown. Additional steps including cargo recognition, vesicle nucleation, and retrieval of Atg proteins have been omitted for simplicity. See the text for a discussion of the role of efflux.
