Abstract
Autophagy is a lysosome-dependent degradation process essential for maintenance of cellular homeostasis. Based on the mechanism used for substrate delivery into the lysosome lumen, autophagy is classified in: macroautophagy (MA), microautophagy (MI) and chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA). Unlike MA and MI, CMA is a selective type of autophagy in which proteins are identified and transport…