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On top of that, UPEC co-opts ferritinophagy (a selective type of autophagy) and shuttles in the autophagosomal and lysosomal compartments with ferritin-sure iron, facilitating UPEC survival and persistence throughout the urothelium280. Autophagy normally leads to bacterial degradation, but UPEC can block acidification and endure in lysosomes281. sc