Fletcher Lab
@fletcherlabucb.bsky.social
Bioengineering, Biophysics, Computational Biology and Molecular and Cell Biology. Account run by students/post-docs.
Lab website: https://fletchlab.berkeley.edu/
Lab website: https://fletchlab.berkeley.edu/
Thanks to our collaborators: @gatesfoundation.bsky.social, @isaacbogoch.bsky.social, Spotlab, GH Labs, ISM, CERMEL, UHN, among others.
March 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Thanks to our collaborators: @gatesfoundation.bsky.social, @isaacbogoch.bsky.social, Spotlab, GH Labs, ISM, CERMEL, UHN, among others.
Reposted by Fletcher Lab
This supports the idea that target cell's biophysical properties regulate the decision to trogocytose instead of phagocytose, as Caitlin Cornell @fletcherlabucb.bsky.social proposed in their recent preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.02.626490
Target cell tension regulates macrophage trogocytosis
Macrophages are known to engulf small membrane fragments, or trogocytose, target cells and pathogens, rather than fully phagocytose them. However, little is known about what causes macrophages to choo...
doi.org
February 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This supports the idea that target cell's biophysical properties regulate the decision to trogocytose instead of phagocytose, as Caitlin Cornell @fletcherlabucb.bsky.social proposed in their recent preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.02.626490