The cellular process of autophagy has been proposed to help kill Mycobacterium tuberculosis. But although the autophagy gene Atg5 is key to host immunity, other autophagy genes do not affect the outcome of tuberculosis. See Letter p.565
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Behar, S., Baehrecke, E. Autophagy is not the answer. Nature 528, 482–483 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature16324
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