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NATURE REVIEWS IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 16, Issue 11, Pages 661-675Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nri.2016.100
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- NIH [DK103788, DK093668, HL123340]
- Stony Wold-Herbert Fund
- Bernard Levine
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Autophagy has broad functions in immunity, ranging from cell-autonomous defence to coordination of complex multicellular immune responses. The successful resolution of infection and avoidance of autoimmunity necessitates efficient and timely communication between autophagy and pathways that sense the immune environment. The recent literature indicates that a variety of immune mediators induce or repress autophagy. It is also becoming increasingly clear that immune signalling cascades are subject to regulation by autophagy, and that a return to homeostasis following a robust immune response is critically dependent on this pathway. Importantly, examples of non-canonical forms of autophagy in mediating immunity are pervasive. In this article, the progress in elucidating mechanisms of crosstalk between autophagy and inflammatory signalling cascades is reviewed. Improved mechanistic understanding of the autophagy machinery offers hope for treating infectious and inflammatory diseases.
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