Ancient single-celled organisms such as amoeba use phagocytosis as a way to acquire nutrients, rather than an immune strategy. ... Upon binding, "outside-in" signalling triggers actin polymerisation and pseudopodia formation, which surrounds and fuses behind ... In cell biology, a phagosome is a vesicle formed around a particle engulfed by a phagocyte via phagocytosis. Professional ... Some invasive bacteria can also induce phagocytosis in non-phagocytic cells to mediate host uptake. For example, Shigella can ...

In Amoeba, the pseudopodia are approximately tubular, and rounded at the ends (lobose). The cell's overall shape may change ... An Amoeba obtains its food by phagocytosis, engulfing smaller organisms and particles of organic matter, or by pinocytosis, ... When crawling rapidly along a surface, the cell may take a roughly monopodial form, with a single dominant pseudopod deployed ... rapidly as pseudopodia are extended and retracted into the cell body. An Amoeba may produce many pseudopodia at once, ...

There are spherical extrusomes, around 0.5 μm in diameter, directly beneath plasma membrane, but not seen in the pseudopodia. ... Viridiraptoridae are heterotrophic protists that feed by phagocytosis on live and dead eukaryotic cells. They are capable of ...

The pseudopodia are actin based extensions of the body and form at irregular regions of the cell. Movement occurs in this stage ... It feeds via phagocytosis. The few species that are pathogenic seem to be characteristically thermophilic, preferring warmer ... As the feeding stage of the organism, pseudopodia are also used to engulf prey, such as bacteria. This is also the stage that ... The amoebae stage is the feeding stage and has blunt pseudopodia (lobopodia) that give the cell an overall irregular, yet ...

"Amoebae: Protists Which Move and Feed Using Pseudopodia". Tree of Life web project. "The Amoebae". The University of Edinburgh ... axopods can completely retract within 20 ms in order to draw in trapped prey for phagocytosis. These fast reactions are usually ... Many unicellular protists, particularly protozoans, are motile and can generate movement using flagella, cilia or pseudopods. ... and cells which use pseudopods are usually referred to as amoeba or amoeboids. Other protists are not motile, and consequently ...

Phagocytosis: The department of defense (editorial). N Engl J Med. 1972; 286:776. 3. Stossel TP, Cohn ZA. Phagocytosis and ... From signal to pseudopod: how cells control cytoplasmic actin assembly. J Biol Chem. 1989; 264:18261-18264. 65. Stossel TP. ... The Mechanism of Phagocytosis. In: Karnovsky ML, Bolis L, eds. Phagocytosis - Past and Future. Metchnikoff Centenniel Symposium ... Measurement of phagocytosis by macrophages. In: Bloom BR, David JR, eds. In vitro methods in cell-mediated and tumor immunity. ...

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Similarly to amoebae of other supergroups, they catch and enclose their prey within a food vacuole by usual phagocytosis. Some ... they generate slender pseudopodia (filopodia). They are naked, devoid of external structures such as scales, cell coats or a ... Their main activity is to disperse, search and gather food through phagocytosis. The immobile but highly metabollically active ... and invading through pseudopodia (called 'calyculopodia') to remove the cell contents . Some species eject the prey cytoplasm ...

Phagocytosis is followed by digestion of the ingested amoebae. Next the zygote forms a macrocyst characterized by a surrounding ... The amoebae move using filose pseudopods, and are attracted to chemicals produced by other amoebae. In Dictyostelium discoideum ... such as phagocytosis, membrane trafficking, endocytic transit and vesicle sorting. Like leukocytes, D. discoideum possess ... Phospholipase C IP3 induces calcium ion release Calcium ions act on the cytoskeleton to induce the extension of pseudopodia. ...

Once activated, they change shape and become more amorphous or amoeba-like and can extend pseudopods as they hunt for antigens ... 0.001) the phagocytic index Rubin-Bejerano I, Abeijon C, Magnelli P, Grisafi P, Fink GR (July 2007). "Phagocytosis by human ... Neutrophils will be removed after phagocytosis of pathogens by macrophages. PECAM-1 and phosphatidylserine on the cell surface ... Neutrophils have three methods for directly attacking micro-organisms: phagocytosis (ingestion), degranulation (release of ...

The microvilli and pseudopodia play a role in the endocytosis of particles. The nucleus is indented and ovoid, and can be ... It is possible for the Kupffer cells to take in large particles by phagocytosis and smaller particles via pinocytosis. Kupffer ... Kupffer cells are amoeboid in character, with surface features including microvilli, pseudopodia and lamellipodia, which ... March 2006). "CRIg: a macrophage complement receptor required for phagocytosis of circulating pathogens". Cell. 124 (5): 915-27 ...

Functions include phagocytosis of foreign particles, production of antibodies, secretion of inflammatory response triggers ( ... In this form, leukocytes extend pseudopodia and pass through gaps between endothelial cells. This passage of cells through the ...

They lack a distinct cytostome, which means they must use phagocytosis to engulf food. There are two subgroups: Trichonympha ... Amoebozoa are characterized by the use of pseudopodia for movement and feeding. These protists reproduce by binary or multiple ... In holozoic nutrition, solid nutrients are absorbed through phagocytosis. Some protozoa are photoautotrophic protists. These ... and is distinguished by fine pseudopodia which can be branched, simple, or connected. Some members of Stramenopila are brown ...

The polymerization of actin filaments is responsible for the formation of pseudopods, filopodia and lamellipodia during cell ... The process of paracytophagy is considered distinct from similar but unrelated processes such as phagocytosis and trogocytosis ...

Actin filaments and pseudopodia form. During migration, integrins on the pseudopod attach to the ECM, and the actin filaments ... This happens through the process of phagocytosis, where white blood cells engulf debris and destroy it. Platelet-derived growth ... Stem cells of endothelial cells, originating from parts of uninjured blood vessels, develop pseudopodia and push through the ... By the fourth day, phagocytosis of contaminated tissues is well underway, and the processes of epithelization, collagen ...

... and phagocytosis. Actoclampin motors also propel such intracellular pathogens as Listeria monocytogenes, Shigella flexneri, ... the thin filaments serve as tensile platforms for myosin's ATP-dependent pulling action in muscle contraction and pseudopod ...

Filopodia have been given various names: microspikes, pseudopods, thin filopodia, thick filopodia, gliopodia, myopodia, ... aggregation and phagocytosis. The effect of nitric oxide". Experimental Cell Research. 304 (2): 620-9. doi:10.1016/j.yexcr. ...

... with investigations of the process as an initial step of phagocytosis. The significance of chemotaxis in biology and clinical ... the internal surface of the plasma membrane via different sets of peptides and results in the formation of anterior pseudopods ...