The product of endosome–autophagosome fusion is known as an amphisome. The completed autophagosome or amphisome fuses with a lysosome, which supplies acid hydrolases. The enzymes in the ...

During autophagy, sequestration begins with the formation of a phagophore that expands into a double-membrane autophagosome while surrounding a portion of the cytoplasm. The autophagosome may fuse ...