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autophagosome assembly

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The formation of a double membrane-bounded structure, the autophagosome, that occurs when a specialized membrane sac, called the isolation membrane, starts to enclose a portion of the cytoplasm. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9412464 ]