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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Campello S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2118173 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Campello Silvia S Lacalle Rosa Ana RA Bettella Monica M Mañes Santos S Scorrano Luca L Viola Antonella A
The Journal of experimental medicine 20061204 13
Lymphocyte traffic is required to maintain homeostasis and perform appropriate immunological reactions. To migrate into inflamed tissues, lymphocytes must acquire spatial and functional asymmetries. Mitochondria are highly dynamic organelles that distribute in the cytoplasm to meet specific cellular needs, but whether this is essential to lymphocyte functions is unknown. We show that mitochondria specifically concentrate at the uropod during lymphocyte migration by a process involving rearrangem ...[more]