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also: antimicrobial autophagy or antibacterial autophagy. This term (Levine, 2005) refers to a process targeting invading bacteria, fungi, parasites, and DNA or RNA viruses by making use of autophagy mechanisms (for overview see: Jo et al, 2013; Wileman T, 2013). For what might be considered a specialised case of xenophagy involving non-microbial entities see also: Ferritinophagy .
Xenophagy has been shown to be utilized not only in specialist immune cells, but also in other cell types such as epithelial cells, which are frequently the target of invading microorganisms (Levine, 2005). Cases of cell type specificity regarding xenophagy have been observed. Lu
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