Autophagy and Inflammatory Cell Death, Partners of Innate Immunity

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By law in the evolutionary jungle, any host defense mechanism that efficiently kills microbes also exerts a strong selective pressure for tolerant variants to emerge. As a consequence, pathogens can be exploited as powerful tools to examine host defense mechanisms. Recent studies of the confrontation between macrophages and the opportunistic pathogen Legionella pneumophila have revealed a regulatory mechanism...

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