TY - JOUR AU - Münz, Christian AU - Campbell, Grant R AU - Esclatine, Audrey AU - Faure, Mathias AU - Labonte, Patrick AU - Lussignol, Marion AU - Orvedahl, Anthony AU - Altan-Bonnet, Nihal AU - Bartenschlager, Ralf AU - Beale, Rupert AU - Cirone, Mara AU - Espert, Lucile AU - Jung, Jae AU - Leib, David AU - Reggiori, Fulvio AU - Sanyal, Sumana AU - Spector, Stephen A AU - Thiel, Volker AU - Viret, Christophe AU - Wei, Yu AU - Wileman, Thomas AU - Wodrich, Harald TI - Autophagy machinery as exploited by viruses. JO - Autophagy reports VL - 4 IS - 1 SN - 2769-4127 CY - London PB - Taylor & Francis Group M1 - DKFZ-2025-00756 SP - 2464986 PY - 2025 AB - Viruses adapt and modulate cellular pathways to allow their replication in host cells. The catabolic pathway of macroautophagy, for simplicity referred to as autophagy, is no exception. In this review, we discuss anti-viral functions of both autophagy and select components of the autophagy machinery, and how viruses have evaded them. Some viruses use the membrane remodeling ability of the autophagy machinery to build their replication compartments in the cytosol or efficiently egress from cells in a non-lytic fashion. Some of the autophagy machinery components and their remodeled membranes can even be found in viral particles as envelopes or single membranes around virus packages that protect them during spreading and transmission. Therefore, studies on autophagy regulation by viral infections can reveal functions of the autophagy machinery beyond lysosomal degradation of cytosolic constituents. Furthermore, they can also pinpoint molecular interactions with which the autophagy machinery can most efficiently be manipulated, and this may be relevant to develop effective disease treatments based on autophagy modulation. KW - Endosomal damage (Other) KW - interferon (Other) KW - replication organelle (Other) KW - secretory autophagy (Other) KW - virophagy (Other) LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 C6 - pmid:40201908 C2 - pmc:PMC11921968 DO - DOI:10.1080/27694127.2025.2464986 UR - https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/300306 ER -