| Chapter title |
Dissecting Phagocytic Removal of Apoptotic Cells in Caenorhabditis elegans.
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|---|---|
| Chapter number | 18 |
| Book title |
Phagocytosis and Phagosomes
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| Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, January 2017
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| DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-6581-6_18 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-6579-3, 978-1-4939-6581-6
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| Authors |
Shiya Cheng, Kai Liu, Chonglin Yang, Xiaochen Wang |
| Editors |
Roberto Botelho |
| Abstract |
The unique features of programmed cell death during C. elegans development provide an outstanding system to decipher the mechanisms governing phagocytic removal of apoptotic cells. Like in many other organisms, phagocytosis in C. elegans involves several essential events, including exposure of eat-me signals on the cell corpse surface, cell corpse recognition and engulfment by phagocytes, and maturation of phagosomes for cell corpse destruction. Forward or reverse genetic approaches, microscopy-based cell biological methods, and biochemical assays have successfully been employed to identify key factors that control different steps of phagocytosis and to understand their functions in these cellular events. In this chapter, we mainly describe how to apply genetic and cell biological approaches to dissect cell corpse removal by phagocytosis in C. elegans. |
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