Model for WHAMM - dependent formation of autophagosomes in cell recycling system. (pennmedicine.org)
The images clearly show that both lithium (n) and rapamycin (p) change the cytoplasmic diffuse fluorescence pattern of GFP - LC3 to a punctuated pattern indicative of autophagosome formation. (pnas.org)
One holds that it is an active process in which paternal mitochondria are selectively degraded by a «self - eating» system known as autophagy, in which vesicles called autophagosomes engulf the cell's unwanted structures. (sciencedaily.com)