Research led by scientists from the Institute of Molecular Biology of Barcelona (IBMB) of the CSIC and the Bellvitge ...

Specifically, they have been able to see how zebrafish embryos use cells present on their surface, known as epithelial cells, to ingest and destroy bacteria through a process called phagocytosis ...

Synthetic phagocytosis, the future of the fight against antibiotic resistance IBEC’s Principal Investigator César Rodriguez-Emmenegger has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant to develop ...

The microglia, in turn, seem to benefit, revving up metabolism and phagocytosis. The liver protein ApoA-I was particularly good at bolstering the latter. Overall, the findings suggest that the brain’s ...

This study proposes that scanning acoustic microscopy (SAM) distinguishes living cells’ three-dimensional and dynamic structural changes during physiological reactions. Using SAM, we observed ...

Figure 2. Cytoskeletal remodeling is associated with a sustained shift toward Rho/formin activity. a-b) In a, representative confocal images of the mid-section of BMDM stained with phalloidin (F-actin ...

Abstract Apoptosis of vascular smooth muscle cells has recently been demonstrated to occur in vitro and in vivo. Uptake of apoptotic cells into adjacent normal cells appears to be rapid and specific.

Background: Phagocytosis plays an essential role in innate immunity and is key in bridging innate immunity and adaptive immunity. Phagocytosis checkpoints promote tumor immune escape by inhibiting ...

Molecular mechanism of actin filament elongation by formins. Science, 2024; 384 (6692) DOI: 10.1126/science.adn9560 ...

Phagocytosis is a universal cell function, which starts with the recognition and binding of a particle (over 0.5 µm in diameter), generally in a receptor-dependent manner, and leads to its ...

Journal Reference: Peter J. Carman, Kyle R. Barrie, Grzegorz Rebowski, Roberto Dominguez. Structures of the free and capped ends of the actin filament. Science, 2023; DOI: 10.1126/science.adg6812 ...