Protrusive push versus enveloping embrace: Computational model of phagocytosis predicts key regulatory role of cytoskeletal membrane anchors

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Herant, Marc ^a   Lee, Cheng Yuk ^b   Dembo, Micah ^a   Heinrich, Volkmar ^b  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY REACTIONS; CELL MEMBRANES;

CELL RESPONSE; COATED TARGETS; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; CYTOSKELETAL; CYTOSKELETONS; HUMAN NEUTROPHIL; MECHANISTICS; MEMBRANE ANCHORS; PHAGOCYTOSE; ZYMOSAN;

ANTIBODIES;

ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; FC RECEPTOR; ZYMOSAN;

ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL ANCHORAGE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL STRUCTURE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PREDICTION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NEUTROPHIL; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TARGET CELL; VISCOSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; METABOLISM;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOSKELETON; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; PHAGOCYTOSIS;

EID: 79551573877     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1001068     Document Type: Article

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