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macroautophagic

macroautophagic adjective: relating to macroautophagy.

Adjective

macroautophagic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to macroautophagy
    • The pharmacological properties of LY294002 include an ability to inhibit the macroautophagic degradation of proteins in mammalian cells at autophagic sequestration step [32, 33 ] and to block PI3K-dependent Akt phosphorylation and kinase activity [34, 35 ].2015 September 15, “Strain-Dependent Effect of Macroautophagy on Abnormally Folded Prion Protein Degradation in Infected Neuronal Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of macroautophagic

From macro- + autophagic.

Questions about macroautophagic

What does macroautophagic mean?
Macroautophagic means relating to macroautophagy.
What part of speech is macroautophagic?
Macroautophagic is an adjective.

Words near macroautophagic in the dictionary

  1. macroartifacts
  2. macroassembler
  3. macroassemblers
  4. macroassemblies
  5. macroassembly
  6. macroautophagic
  7. macroautophagosome
  8. macroautophagosomes
  9. macroautophagy
  10. macrobacteria
  11. macrobacterium

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