Autophagy employs a new DAGger against bacteria.

Autophagy can orchestrate innate immune responses to bacterial infection by targeting invading pathogens for lysosomal degradation. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Shahnazari et al. (2010) unveil the role played by the diacylglycerol-PKC pathway in the routing of intracellular Salmonella to autophagy.