Proteomics and Autophagy Research

Autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved intracellular degradation process. Autophagy is closely involved in human health and diseases. In recent years, mass spectrometry-based proteomic methods have become important and powerful tools for autophagy studies. These types of techniques have been especially helpful to reveal the range of degradation substrates of autophagy through large-scale, unbiased analysis of cellular proteomes. At present, a variety of mass spectrometry-based proteomics methods have been successfully applied to autophagy research.