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Eating the strangers within: host control of intracellular bacteria via xenophagy
10 Jul 2011
Abstract excerpt
Many bacterial pathogens rely on an intracellular cycle to ensure their proliferation within infected hosts, through their ability to avoid or circumvent host bactericidal pathways. Recent evidence supports an increasingly important role for the autophagy pathway in innate immune defences against intracellular pathogens, as a mechanism of capture of either cytosol-adapted or vacuolar bacteria that redirect them...
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