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AUTOPHAGY
Volume 12, Issue 3, Pages 608-609Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/15548627.2016.1139263
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amphisomes; autophagy flux; LC3; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; macrophages; RAB7; xenophagy
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Induction of autophagy has been reported as a potential means to eliminate intracellular pathogens. Corroborating that, many studies report inhibition of autophagy as a survival strategy of bacterial pathogens. Incidentally, autophagy at the basal level is critical for survival of host cells including macrophages. We asked how a bacterial pathogen could inhibit autophagy for its survival if the inhibition resulted in cell death. In a recent study we show distinct regulation of autophagy in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb)-infected macrophages where Mtb containing-and nonMtb-containing autophagosomes show different fates in terms of maturation. We show that upon Mtb infection, there is no dramatic change in the autophagy flux in macrophages. However, autophagosomes that contain the virulent strains of Mtb show selective resilience to the maturation phase of autophagy. Surprisingly, nonMtb-containing autophagosomes in the infected cells continue to mature into autolysosomes. The block in the xenophagy flux is missing in the case of avirulant infections. We show that this selectivity is achieved through selective exclusion of RAB7 from virulent Mtb-containing autophagosomes, thereby restricting the formation of amphisomes.
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