Category:GO:0006914 ! autophagy

name: autophagy
namespace: biological_process
alt_id: GO:0016238
def: "The cellular catabolic process in which cells digest cellular materials, such as organelles and other macromolecular constituents, or non-self materials such as intracellular pathogens. Autophagy serves to provide essential nutrients under conditions of cellular stress; or can remodel intracellular structures during cell differentiation." [GOC:autophagy, ISBN:0198547684, PMID:11099404, PMID:29455577, PMID:9412464]
subset: goslim_chembl
subset: goslim_drosophila
subset: goslim_euk_cellular_processes_ribbon
subset: goslim_generic
subset: goslim_pir
subset: goslim_pombe
xref: Wikipedia:Autophagy_(cellular)
is_a: GO:0009056 ! catabolic process
is_a: GO:0061919 ! process utilizing autophagic mechanism
relationship: has_part: GO:0055085 ! transmembrane transport

AmiGO <GOterm>GO:0006914</GOterm>
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