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Secretory autophagy of lysozyme in Paneth cells.
Autophagy - 1 Jan 2018
Bel Shai, Hooper Lora V
Abstract excerpt
Secretion of antimicrobial proteins is an important host defense mechanism against bacteria, yet how secretory cells maintain function during bacterial invasion has been unclear. We discovered that Paneth cells, specialized secretory cells in the small intestine, react to bacterial invasion by rerouting a critical secreted antibacterial protein through a macroautophagy/autophagy-based secretion system termed...
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