Autophagy is a primarily degradative pathway that takes place in all eukaryotic cells. It is used for recycling cytoplasm to generate macromolecular building blocks and energy under stress conditions, to remove superf...
Subcellular trafficking is required for a multitude of functions in eukaryotic cells. It involves regulation of cargo sorting, vesicle formation, trafficking and fusion processes at multiple levels. Adaptor protein ...
Acute pancreatitis is initiated in pancreatic acinar cells and characterized by a profound disturbance in intracellular vesicle transport. Moreover, secretion of pancreatic zymogens is blocked, paralleled by the forma...
The most striking morphological feature of eukaryotic cells is the presence of various membrane-enclosed compartments. These compartments, including organelles and transient transport intermediates, are not static. Ra...