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The extraordinary phagosome

Nature volume 418, pages 286–287 (2002)Cite this article

The finding that a cellular compartment called the endoplasmic reticulum can merge with the cell's outer membrane is surprising. It would not have been predicted from our knowledge of cell organization.

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Figure 1: Intracellular organelles that interact with phagosomes — membrane-bounded compartments for the uptake of certain extracellular substances.

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