LC3 (APG8a) (N-Term) Peptide

Background: Autophagy is a process of intracellular bulk degradation in which cytoplasmic components including organelles are sequestered within double-membrane vesicles that deliver the contents to the lysosome/vacuole for degradation. There are three primary forms of autophagy: chaperone-mediated autophagy, microautophagy and macroautophagy. During macroautophagy, the sequestering vesicles, termed autophagosomes, fuse with the lysosome or vacuole resulting in the delivery of an inner vesicle (autophagic body) into the lumen of the degradative compartment. There are 16 proteins participating in autophagy pathway in human (http://ca.expasy.org/cgi-bin/get-entries? KW=Autophagy&view=tree). Abgent’s exclusive product line for autophagy research, 2-4 epitopes for each protein, provides antibodies against each protein in the pathway.