# xenophagy

> macroautophagy process in which a region of cytoplasm containing an intracellular pathogen or some part of an intracellular pathogen is enclosed in a double membrane bound autophagosome, which then fuses with the lysosome lead

**Wikidata**: [Q8043643](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8043643)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophagy)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/xenophagy


## References

1. Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07
2. UMLS 2023