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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

Tubular lysosomes harbor active ion gradients and poise macrophages for phagocytosis.

Bhavyashree Suresh, Anand Saminathan, Kasturi Chakraborty, Matthew Zajac, Chang Cui, Lev Becker, Yamuna Krishnan

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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26citing papers in PubMed
5.5field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. A nucleic acid labeling chemistry reveals surface DNA on exosomes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  17. ASO-mediated knockdown or kinase inhibition ofMolecular therapy. Nucleic acids · 2023
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  18. Nonmyocytes as electrophysiological contributors to cardiac excitation and conduction.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Bhavyashree SureshDepartment of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637.
Anand SaminathanDepartment of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637.
Kasturi ChakrabortyDepartment of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637.ORCID 0000-0002-0635-9028
Matthew ZajacDepartment of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637.ORCID 0000-0001-8282-2160
Chang CuiCommittee on Cancer Biology, Ben May Department for Cancer Research, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637.
Lev BeckerCommittee on Cancer Biology, Ben May Department for Cancer Research, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637; levb@uchicago.edu yamuna@uchicago.edu.
Yamuna KrishnanDepartment of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637; levb@uchicago.edu yamuna@uchicago.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-5282-8852
University of Chicago · US

Funding

'Metabolically Activated' Macrophages in Obesity and Insulin ResistanceR01DK102960 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI BECKER, LEV · 2015 to 2024
$4.4M
A Macrophage Protein Network Links Obesity and type 2 Diabetes to AtherosclerosisR01HL137998 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI BECKER, LEV · 2018 to 2021
$1.9M
Calcium homeostasis in organellesR01NS112139 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI KRISHNAN, YAMUNA · 2020 to 2024
$1.8M
A mechanism of lysosomal Calcium entryR21NS114428 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI KRISHNAN, YAMUNA · 2019 to 2020
$408k
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL137998NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK102960NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS112139NINDS NIH HHS R21 NS114428
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lysosomes adopt dynamic, tubular states that regulate antigen presentation, phagosome resolution, and autophagy. Tubular lysosomes are studied either by inducing autophagy or by activating immune cells, both of which lead to cell states where lysosomal gene expression differs from the resting state. Therefore, it has been challenging to pinpoint the biochemical properties lysosomes acquire upon tubulation that could drive their functionality. Here we describe a DNA-based assembly that tubulates lysosomes in macrophages without activating them. Proteolytic activity maps at single-lysosome resolution revealed that tubular lysosomes were less degradative and showed proximal to distal luminal pH and Ca

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DNALysosomesMacrophagesMatrix Metalloproteinase 9PhagocytosisAnimalsAptamers, NucleotideAutophagyCalciumCarbocyaninesCell Line, TumorChlorocebus aethiopsCOS CellsHep G2 CellsHumansMiceAptamers, NucleotideCalciumCarbocyaninesDNAMatrix Metalloproteinase 9DNA nanotechnologylysosomesmacrophagesMMP9phagocytosis

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PMID34607961
PMCPMC8522270
OpenAlexW3204035898

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