Autophagy

Cellular recycling, sonified

Turn Audio on. Mouse Y = nutrient level (top fed, bottom starved). Mouse X = autophagy flux. Click engulfs cargo into a growing autophagosome.

Keys 1–6 switch starvation type (amino acid, glucose, complete, hypoxia, ER stress, oxidative). Space = refeeding — nutrients return, autophagy terminates.

Listen as the cell moves through phases: induction → nucleation → expansion → maturation → lysosomal degradation.

Fed · amino acid starvation