#erphagy — Public Fediverse posts
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Selective macroautophagy of the #EndoplasmicReticulum (ER) and the #nucleus, known as ER-phagy and nucleophagy respectively, are poorly understood. A study in #FissionYeast reveals that conserved ER-shaping protein Yep1 (REEP1-4 ortholog) is required for these processes; in its absence, #ERphagy/#nucleophagy cargo structures accumulate in the cytoplasm #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/464ZfuI