Autophagosome and Phagosome

Autophagosome and Phagosome.- Fine Structure of the Autophagosome.- Methods for Assessing Autophagy and Autophagic Cell Death.- LC3 and Autophagy.- Amino Acid Regulation of Autophagosome Formation.- Autophagic Proteolysis of Long-Lived Proteins in Nonliver Cells.- Autophagosomes in GFP-LC3 Transgenic Mice.- Experimental Control and Characterization of Autophagy in Drosophila.- Analysis of Autophagosome Membrane Cycling by Fluorescence Microscopy.- Protein Trafficking into Autophagosomes.- Sphingolipids in Macroautophagy.- Molecular Links Between Autophagy and Apoptosis.- Clearance of Mutant Aggregate-Prone Proteins by Autophagy.- Localization and MHC Class II Presentation of Antigens Targeted for Macroautophagy.- Chaperone-Mediated Autophagy.- Microautophagy in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.- EM Analysis of Phagosomes.- Analysis of Phosphoinositide Dynamics During Phagocytosis Using Genetically Encoded Fluorescent Biosensors.- In Vitro Phagosome-Endosome Fusion.- Real-Time Spectrofluorometric Assays for the Lumenal Environment of the Maturing Phagosome.- Maturation Changes in Purified Phagosomes.- Large-Scale Purification of Latex Bead Phagosomes from Mouse Macrophage Cell Lines and Subsequent Preparation for High-Throughput Quantitative Proteomics.- Class II MHC Antigen Processing in Phagosomes.- Analyzing Association of the Endoplasmic Reticulum with the Legionella pneumophila-Containing Vacuoles by Fluorescence Microscopy.- Fractionation of the Coxiella burnetii Parasitophorous Vacuole.- Bacterial Phagosome Acidification Within IFN-?-Activated Macrophages: Role of Host p47 Immunity-Related GTPases IRGs).- SopE-Mediated Recruitment of Host Rab5 on Phagosomes Inhibits Salmonella Transport to Lysosomes.- The Mycobacterium tuberculosis Phagosome.

Vojo Deretic is full professor and vice-chair at the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology of the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center. From 1997 to 1999 hewas Foundation Lecturer of the American Society for Microbiology. He published one of the groundbreaking papers on this topic in CELL.

From the reviews:



"The book is well balanced between autophagy and phagosomes, with an approximately equal number of chapters dedicated to each topic. ... the book is a useful and comprehensive resource for people interested in the study of autophagy and phagocytosis. ... scientists involved in apoptosis research may also find this book useful." (Franco H. Falcone, Immunology News, November, 2008)