The work concerns an important biological process , which is autophagy - phylogenetically old and conservative mechanism , whose role combines , among others, elimination of damaged and (or ) of the cell used in order to prevent the complete degradation . The process of autophagy , being one of the four basic mechanisms of cell death , requires the action of a number of genes and factors supporting . Within autophagy is distinguished by macroautophagy , mikroautofagię , specific autophagy and autophagy -dependent chaperones .