title: Caging the elephant: selective autophagy tackles giant intracellular protein crystals.
abstract: In this issue of Molecular Cell, Tsutsui et al. (2015) show that in vivo protein crystallization may come in handy not only when solving the structure of a protein, but also when studying molecular mechanisms of selective autophagy.
authors.affiliation: Merck KGaA, Frankfurter Strasse 250, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany; BMLS Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Strasse 15, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
authors.forename: Sabrina
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Habisov
authors.affiliation: Merck KGaA, Frankfurter Strasse 250, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany. Electronic address: vladimir.kirkin@merckgroup.com.
authors.forename: Vladimir
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kirkin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D037421:Anthozoa / Q000737:chemistry*; D003600:Cytosol / Q000378:metabolism*; D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D006801:Humans; D008247:Lysosomes / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins