Invited Speaker Abstract 2018 Hunter Cell Biology Meeting

Multi-modal recruitment of autophagy receptors amplifies mitophagy (#26)

Benjamin S Padman 1 , Thanh N Nguyen 1 , Louise Uoselis 1 , Lan K Nguyen 1 , Michael Lazarou 1
  1. Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia
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