A substantial number of viruses have been demonstrated to subvert autophagy to promote their own replication.

While viruses must evade autophagocytic destruction, some viruses can also subvert autophagy for their own benefit.

In this chapter, we describe several examples where the strategy employed by a virus to subvert autophagy has been described with molecular detail.

IAV therefore subverts autophagy by mimicking a host short linear protein-protein interaction motif.