NHE9 Causes Alkaline Endosomes in Certain Brain Cancers (IMAGE)

Johns Hopkins Medicine

NHE9 Causes Alkaline Endosomes in Certain Brain Cancers

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The 'cargo carriers,' or endosomes, of certain brain cancer cells contain overactive NHE9 proteins (blue), which pump out too many protons (orange), changing the endosomes' acidity and slowing their 'shipping speed.'

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Hari Prasad and Rajini Rao

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