Research Interests

Research falls into two major areas: 1) regulated exocytosis in immune cells; 2) ion channel (CFTR) expression and its function.

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• Anke Di, Mary E. Brown, Ludmila V. Deriy, Chunying Li, Frances L. Szeto, Yimei Chen, Ping Huang, Jiankun Tong, Anjaparavanda P. Naren ,   Vytautas Bindokas, Anjaparavanda P. Naren,  H. Clive Palfrey and Deborah J. Nelson. CFTR regulates phagosome acidification and alters bactericidal activity. Nature Cell Biology, 2006, 8: 933-944.
• Anke Di, Deborah J. Nelson, V. Bindokas, M. E. Brown, LF Libunao, and H. Clive Palfrey. Dynamin regulateds focal exocytosis in phagocytosing macrophages. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 2003, 14: 2016-2028.
• Anke Di, Boris Krupa, Vytas, P. Bindokas, Yimei Chen, Mary E. Brown, H. Clive Palfrey, Anjaparavanda P. Naren, Kevin L. Kirk, and Deborah J. Nelson. Quantal release of free radicals during exocytosis of phagosomes. Nature Cell Biology, 2002, 4:279-285.
• Anke Di, Boris Krupa and Deborah J. Nelson. Calcium-G protein interactions in the regulation of macrophage secretion. The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2001 276: 37124-37132.