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Mycobacterium's arrest of phagosome maturation in macrophages requires Rab5 activity and accessibility to iron.
Molecular biology of the cell - 1 Aug 2003
Kelley Victoria A, Schorey Jeffrey S
Abstract excerpt
Many mycobacteria are intramacrophage pathogens that reside within nonacidified phagosomes that fuse with early endosomes but do not mature to phagolysosomes. The mechanism by which mycobacteria block this maturation process remains elusive. To gain insight into whether fusion with early endosomes is required for mycobacteria-mediated inhibition of phagosome maturation, we investigated how perturbing the GTPase...
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