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Beneficial lessons from viruses

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To thwart the antimicrobial responses of their hosts, pathogens have evolved diverse mechanisms, including autophagy. Knowledge of such mechanisms has now led to a pro-autophagy peptide that may be of therapeutic value. See Article p.201

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Figure 1: A promising peptide.

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  1. *This article and the paper under discussion1 were published online on 30 January 2013.

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  1. Adolfo García-Sastre is at the Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 10029, USA.,

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García-Sastre, A. Beneficial lessons from viruses. Nature 494, 181–182 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11947

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