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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE
Volume 203, Issue 13, Pages 2879-2886Publisher
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20061877
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- Fondazione Telethon Funding Source: Custom
- Telethon [TCP02016] Funding Source: Medline
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Lymphocyte traffic is required to maintain homeostasis and perform appropriate immunological reactions. To migrate into inflamed tissues, lymphocytes must acquire spatial and functional asymmetries. Mitochondria are highly dynamic organelles that distribute in the cytoplasm to meet specific cellular needs, but whether this is essential to lymphocyte functions is unknown. We show that mitochondria specifically concentrate at the uropod during lymphocyte migration by a process involving rearrangements of their shape. Mitochondrial fission facilitates relocation of the organelles and promotes lymphocyte chemotaxis, whereas mitochondrial fusion inhibits both processes. Our data substantiate a new role for mitochondrial dynamics and suggest that mitochondria redistribution is required to regulate the motor of migrating cells.
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