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Nature Immunology 9, 827 - 829 (2008)
doi:10.1038/ni0808-827

A 'fly-by' killing with a primordial cellular weapon

Herbert Virgin1

  1. Herbert Virgin is in the Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA.
    e-mail: virgin@wustl.edu


Autophagy has been suggested—on the basis of in vitro studies—to be involved in defense against bacterial challenge. A study in drosophila now shows the importance of autophagy in vivo and links a pattern recognition receptor to the autophagy pathway.

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