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SUBMITTER: Yu C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6826004 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yu Chen C Muñoz Luis E LE Mallavarapu Mallika M Herrmann Martin M Finnemann Silvia C SC
Journal of cell science 20191016 20
Diurnal clearance phagocytosis by the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) is a conserved efferocytosis process whose binding step is mediated by αvβ5 integrin receptors. Two related annexins, A5 (ANXA5) and A6 (ANXA6), share an αvβ5 integrin-binding motif. Here, we report that ANXA5, but not ANXA6, regulates the binding capacity for spent photoreceptor outer segment fragments or apoptotic cells by fibroblasts and RPE. Similar to αvβ5-deficient RPE, ANXA5<sup>-/-</sup> RPE <i>in vivo</i> lacks the d ...[more]