<i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i> hijacks host macrophages-derived interleukin 16 to block phagolysosome maturation for enhancing intracellular growth.

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"Author contributions: WHZ and YX, resources; HBS, SFW, LLL, QS and YX, data curation; SFW, LLL, WJ and YX, software; HBS, LLL, WJ and YX, formal analysis; HBS, SFW, LLL, YTL, HXM and YMH, validation; SFW, LLL, YTL, HXM, WJ and YMH, investigation; HBS, WHZ, QS and YX, visualization; HBS, WJ, SFW, LLL, HHW and YX, methodology; HBS and YX, writing of the original draft; HBS, WHZ and YX, writing the review and editing; HBS, HHW, WHZ and YX, funding acquisition; HHW, WHZ and YX, project administration; HBS and YX, conceptualization; HBS, HHW, WHZ and YX, supervision. The order among co-first authors is determined by their contribution to performing experiments and writing the manuscript."