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The Luxembourg Institute of Health maintains a database of proteins involved in this process in humans. Through its interaction with RAB7A, Rubicon is one of the few known negative regulators of this process. (-5[1])Fluorescent dots of LC3 are used to confirm the presence of this process. VPS34 phosphorylates inositol phospholipid (-5[1])at the start of this process as part of the Beclin-1 (15[1])complex after being activated by ULK kinases, which are downregulated by (*) mTOR. In yeast, this process is regulated (10[1])by the ATG genes. The “macro” form of this process results in the formation of a double-membrane vesicle around cytoplasmic components, which fuses with a lysosome for degradation. Yoshinori Ohsumi won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology for his work on this process. For 10 points, (10[1])name this process where a cell recycles its own material. ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: autophagy [or autophagocytosis; accept macroautophagy; prompt on lysosome formation by asking, “what other process does that result in?”] (The organelle is the phagosome.)
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