Acknowledgements
The authors acknowledge research funding in support of this work from
the University of British Columbia, the Saskatchewan Health Research
Foundation and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of
Canada. Dr. Beth Levine is kindly acknowledged for providing the
autophagy-inducing and negative control peptides, as well as Pfizer for
providing the CHO cell line. All authors approved the final version of
the manuscript and declare that they have no conflicts of
interest.