Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The GATA-family transcription factors are known to regulate professional phagocyte function, but it is unclear whether they also promote phagocytosis in non-professional phagocytes. In a new study, Jianjun Sun and colleagues find that the GATA factor Serpent promotes the phagocytic capacity of follicle cells - non-professional phagocytes - during Drosophila oogenesis. To find out more about the people behind the paper, we caught up with the first author Baosheng Zeng and the corresponding author Jianjun Sun, Professor at the University of Connecticut, USA.
Source: Development
DOI: 10.1242/dev.204857
Language: English
Subfield: Immunology
Field: Immunology and Microbiology
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4409953851