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ATG16L strikes again! New findings link lysosome stress and physiology

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Lysosome stress responses are emerging, but their connections to normal physiology are not well understood. In this issue, Duque et al. (https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202503166) discover that the autophagy protein ATG16L, a mediator of a stress response called CASM, also regulates normal lysosome function.

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