MAP1LC3A and atherosclerosis: In the human monocyctic THP-1 cells, autophagy-like ultrastructural characteristics through transmission electron microscopy as well as the expression of autophagy hallmarker LC3-phosphatidylethanolamine conjugate (LC3-II) through Western blot analysis (ATCC) displayed that the autophagy is a mainly component in the development of atherosclerosis (Mei et al., 2015; Yuan et al., 2016).