title: Caging targets for destruction.
abstract: Intracellular bacterial pathogens engage in a tug-of-war with innate host defenses. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Mostowy et al. (2010) identify a role for the septin family of cytoskeletal proteins in targeting intracellular Shigella to the autophagy pathway.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
authors.forename: Luisa M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Stamm
authors.forename: Danielle M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Heller
authors.forename: Marcia B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Goldberg