Introductory Chapter: Overview on Autophagy in Burden of Functions

Abstract

Additional information is available at the end of the chapter "The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Yoshinori Ohsumi for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy. 2016-10-03". [q]:www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2016/press.pdf This Nobel Assembly announcement culminates enormous efforts devoted over past decades to elucidate the molecular network of autophagy-fundamental "self-eating" machinery for decomposition and remodeling of cellular components and thus, closes another chapter in the History of Cell Physiology.