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. 2020 Sep 30;19:214. doi: 10.1186/s12944-020-01389-2

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Autophagy mechanism. Autophagy is a cellular mechanism by which metabolites, organelles, proteins, and protein aggregates are enveloped by a vesicular membrane to form an autophagosome. The autophagosome is trafficked to a lysosome where fusion occurs, and lysosomal degradative enzymes break down the cargo