Using microbes as a key tool to unravel the mechanism of autophagy and the functions of the ATG proteins

December 30, 2016

Microbes have served to discover and characterize unconventional functions of the ATG proteins, which are uncoupled from their role in autophagy. In our recent study, we have taken advantage of viruses as a screening tool to determine the extent of the unconventional functions of the ATG proteome and characterize one of them.