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A table for two

Autophagy, the process of cellular self-cannibalism, comes in various forms. It now emerges that two of these — mitophagy and xenophagy — share a common initiator protein, Parkin. See Article p.512

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Figure 1: Parkin and autophagy.

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  1. *This article and the paper under discussion1 were published online on 4 September 2013.

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