Muscle Expressing Mutated VCP

Caption: Membranous vacuoles corresponding to nondegradative autophagosomes accumulate in muscle expressing mutated VCP.

Credit: Ju, J.-S., et al. 2009. J. Cell Biol. doi:10.1083/jcb.200908115.

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