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Autophagy is part of the answer to tuberculosis

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Almost twenty years after it was first linked to control of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in macrophages, autophagy retakes centre stage, as shown in murine models and human cells.

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Fig. 1: Canonical and non-canonical ATG-dependent processes contribute to control of M. tuberculosis.

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  1. Autophagy, Inflammation and Metabolism Center, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM, USA

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  2. Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM, USA

    Vojo Deretic & Fulong Wang

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Deretic, V., Wang, F. Autophagy is part of the answer to tuberculosis. Nat Microbiol 8, 762–763 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-023-01373-3

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