Membrane ruffling, macropinocytosis and antigen presentation in the absence of gelsolin in murine dendritic cells

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 3450-3455

  West, Michele A ^a   Antoniou, Antony N ^a   Prescott, Alan R ^a   Azuma, Toshifumi ^b   Kwiatkowski, David J ^b   Watts, Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Antigen presentation; Dendritic cell; Gelsolin; Knockout mouse; Macropinocytosis

Indexed keywords

GELSOLIN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DENDRITIC CELL; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PINOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032751034     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-4141(199911)29:11<3450::AID-IMMU3450>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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