id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-321259-wio2b49i Carmona-Gutierrez, Didac Digesting the crisis: autophagy and coronaviruses 2020-05-04 .txt text/plain 4350 243 35 Of note, cellular manipulation of autophagic levels during infection may also reflect desperate attempts of the cell to reestablish homeostasis, either through restriction of viral entry by actively shunting endocytosis/endosomal trafficking (possibly resulting in autophagy reduction as a sideeffect) [39] or to counteract virally induced cell death by increasing cytoprotective autophagy. Thus, the group-specific accessory proteins, which by definition are not essential for viral replication but are involved in the modulation of host cells and immune evasion [66, 67] , may represent targets for reducing the autophagy-inhibitory effects of CoVs. The FDA-approved anti-malarial drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine have been suggested to be repurposed for the treatment of COVID-19 [68] [69] [70] , but this remains widely controversial [71] [72] [73] . Intriguingly, another recent preprint presents in vitro data showing that SARS-CoV-2 infection restricts autophagy and that, in turn, pro-autophagic compounds -including spermidine -may inhibit viral propagation [85] . ./cache/cord-321259-wio2b49i.txt ./txt/cord-321259-wio2b49i.txt