Fragile phagocytes: FMRP positively regulates engulfment activity

Logan highlights O’Conner et al.’s discovery that the Fragile X mental retardation protein gene is a key requirement for phagocytosis.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Journal of Cell Biology

• Publication date

  2017-03-06

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1083/jcb.201702034PMID 28228533PMCID 5350528
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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