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SUBMITTER: Kuiper JW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2265766 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kuiper Jan W P JW Pluk Helma H Oerlemans Frank F van Leeuwen Frank N FN de Lange Frank F Fransen Jack J Wieringa Bé B
PLoS biology 20080301 3
Phagocytosis requires locally coordinated cytoskeletal rearrangements driven by actin polymerization and myosin motor activity. How this actomyosin dynamics is dependent upon systems that provide access to ATP at phagosome microdomains has not been determined. We analyzed the role of brain-type creatine kinase (CK-B), an enzyme involved in high-energy phosphoryl transfer. We demonstrate that endogenous CK-B in macrophages is mobilized from the cytosolic pool and coaccumulates with F-actin at nas ...[more]