Term Information

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
None
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
Subset
None
Feedback
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Parents of positive regulation of macroautophagy (GO:0016239)
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positive regulation of macroautophagy [is_a relation] is_a  positive regulation of autophagy (GO:0010508)
positive regulation of macroautophagy [is_a relation] is_a  regulation of macroautophagy (GO:0016241)
positive regulation of macroautophagy [RO:0002213 relation] RO:0002213  macroautophagy (GO:0016236)
Children of positive regulation of macroautophagy (GO:0016239)
subject[Reorder by subject] relation[Reorder by relation] object[Reorder by object]
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
positive regulation of reticulophagy (GO:0140501) [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 autophagosome assembly (GO:2000786) [is_a relation] is_a  positive regulation of macroautophagy
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
None.