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SUBMITTER: Krajcovic M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3842999 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Krajcovic Matej M Krishna Shefali S Akkari Leila L Joyce Johanna A JA Overholtzer Michael M
Molecular biology of the cell 20131002 23
Macroendocytic vacuoles formed by phagocytosis, or the live-cell engulfment program entosis, undergo sequential steps of maturation, leading to the fusion of lysosomes that digest internalized cargo. After cargo digestion, nutrients must be exported to the cytosol, and vacuole membranes must be processed by mechanisms that remain poorly defined. Here we find that phagosomes and entotic vacuoles undergo a late maturation step characterized by fission, which redistributes vacuolar contents into ly ...[more]