Mycobacterial load and direct contact primes spacious to compact phagosome switching for egress
Aher Jayesh Bhausaheb, Aniruddha Nagarajan, Jahnavi Bommidi, Debraj Koiri, Jafarulla Shaikh, Sandeep Choubey, Varadharajan Sundaramurthy, Mohammed Saleem
This study shows that mycobacterial load and direct contact determine phagosome fate by altering membrane mechanics, leading to spacious or compact phagosomal states that influence bacterial egress.
iScience · Jul 17, 2026Peer-reviewedBiophysics