Bridging Toll-like- and B cell-receptor signaling: meet me at the autophagosome.
In this issue of Immunity, Chaturvedi et al. (2008) describe a mechanism for the bridging of innate and adaptive immune receptor functions. In their model, B cell-receptor signaling induces the fusion of Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9)-containing endosomes with internalized signaling-competent BCR into autophagosomes.
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