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Nature Cell Biology 8, 908 - 909 (2006)
doi:10.1038/ncb0906-908
CFTR: helping to acidify macrophage lysosomes
Joel Swanson1
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Joel Swanson is in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0620, USA.
e-mail: jswan@umich.edu
Abstract
A new study shows that alveolar macrophages use the cystic fibrosis transmembrane-conductance regulator (CFTR) to maintain lysosomes at low pH and to restrict the growth of ingested bacteria. This may help to explain the persistent infections and chronic inflammation of the lungs that characterize cystic fibrosis.
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