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Accession
GO:0016239
Name
positive regulation of macroautophagy
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
positive regulation of starvation-induced autophagy, up regulation of macroautophagy, up-regulation of macroautophagy, upregulation of macroautophagy, activation of macroautophagy, stimulation of macroautophagy
Alternate IDs
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Definition
Any process, such as recognition of nutrient depletion, that activates or increases the rate of macroautophagy to bring cytosolic macromolecules to the vacuole/lysosome for degradation. Source: GOC:go_curators, PMID:9412464
Comment
None
History
See term history for GO:0016239 at QuickGO
Chem. react.
None
Subset
None
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Parents of positive regulation of macroautophagy (GO:0016239)
subject[Reorder by subject] relation[Reorder by relation] object[Reorder by object]
positive regulation of macroautophagy [is_a relation] is_a  positive regulation of autophagy (GO:0010508)
positive regulation of macroautophagy [RO:0002213 relation] RO:0002213  macroautophagy (GO:0016236)
positive regulation of macroautophagy [is_a relation] is_a  regulation of macroautophagy (GO:0016241)
Children of positive regulation of macroautophagy (GO:0016239)
subject[Reorder by subject] relation[Reorder by relation] object[Reorder by object]
positive regulation of autophagosome maturation (GO:1901098) [is_a relation] is_a  positive regulation of macroautophagy
positive regulation of lipophagy (GO:1904504) [is_a relation] is_a  positive regulation of macroautophagy
positive regulation of autophagosome assembly (GO:2000786) [is_a relation] is_a  positive regulation of macroautophagy
positive regulation of aggrephagy (GO:1905337) [is_a relation] is_a  positive regulation of macroautophagy
positive regulation of mitophagy (GO:1901526) [is_a relation] is_a  positive regulation of macroautophagy
positive regulation of xenophagy (GO:1904417) [is_a relation] is_a  positive regulation of macroautophagy
GATOR1 complex (GO:1990130) [RO:0002216 relation] RO:0002216  positive regulation of macroautophagy
positive regulation of reticulophagy (GO:0140501) [is_a relation] is_a  positive regulation of macroautophagy
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