A process of exocytosis that uses the autophagy machinery to facilitate secretion of the cytosolic cargo such as leaderless cytosolic proteins which cannot enter the conventional secretory pathway operating via the endoplasmic reticulum and the Golgi apparatus.
constitutive secretory pathway +
establishment of centrosome localization
establishment of chromosome localization +
establishment of ER localization +
establishment of Golgi localization
establishment of mitochondrion localization +
establishment of plastid localization +
establishment of spindle localization +
establishment of vesicle localization +
exocytic insertion of neurotransmitter receptor to postsynaptic membrane +