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Autophagy is a cellular "housekeeping" process that promotes health by recycling or disposing of damaged DNA and RNA and other cellular components in a multi-step degradative process.

From Science Daily • Jan. 4, 2024

For pathogens that escape this process, it is commonly thought that those pathogens must release a "secret arsenal" to "paralyze" the degradative machineries in the cell.

From Science Daily • Dec. 1, 2023

Binding of TCRs with antigens activates CTLs to release perforin and granzyme, degradative enzymes that will induce apoptosis of the infected cell.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022