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Etymology edit

macro- +‎ autophagic

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macroautophagic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to macroautophagy
    • 2015 September 15, “Strain-Dependent Effect of Macroautophagy on Abnormally Folded Prion Protein Degradation in Infected Neuronal Cells”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      The pharmacological properties of LY294002 include an ability to inhibit the macroautophagic degradation of proteins in mammalian cells at autophagic sequestration step [32, 33 ] and to block PI3K-dependent Akt phosphorylation and kinase activity [34, 35 ].