Recognition of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by macrophage Toll-like receptor and its role in autophagy.

The pathogen responsible for tuberculosis is called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Its interaction with macrophages has a significant impact on the onset and progression of the disease. The respiratory pathway allows Mycobacterium tuberculosis to enter the body's lungs where it battles immune cells before being infected latently or actively. In the progress of tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis activates the body's immune system and creates inflammatory factors, which cause tissue inflammation to infiltrate and the creation of granulomas, which seriously harms the body. Toll-like receptors of macrophage can mediate host recognition of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, initiate immune responses, and participate in macrophage autophagy. New host-directed therapeutic approaches targeting autophagy for drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis have emerged, providing new ideas for the effective treatment of tuberculosis. In-depth understanding of the mechanisms by which macrophage autophagy interacts with intracellular Mycobacterium tuberculosis, as well as the study of potent and specific autophagy-regulating molecules, will lead to much-needed advances in drug discovery and vaccine design, which will improve the prevention and treatment of human tuberculosis. © 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

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Linna Wei, Liping Liu, Zudi Meng, Kai Qi, Xuehan Gao, Jihong Feng, Junmin Luo. Recognition of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by macrophage Toll-like receptor and its role in autophagy. Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.]. 2024 May;73(5):753-770

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