Chaperone-mediated autophagy at a glance.

Chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA) is an intracellular catabolic pathway that mediates the degradation of a selective subset of cytosolic proteins in lysosomes ([Dice, 2007][1]; [Cuervo, 2010][2]; [Kon and Cuervo, 2010][3]; [Orenstein and Cuervo, 2010][4]). The term autophagy (or self-eating) is