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SUBMITTER: Rochael NC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4682131 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rochael Natalia C NC Guimarães-Costa Anderson B AB Nascimento Michelle T C MT DeSouza-Vieira Thiago S TS Oliveira Matheus P MP Garcia e Souza Luiz F LF Oliveira Marcus F MF Saraiva Elvira M EM
Scientific reports 20151217
Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) extruded from neutrophils upon activation are composed of chromatin associated with cytosolic and granular proteins, which ensnare and kill microorganisms. This microbicidal mechanism named classical netosis has been shown to dependent on reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation by NADPH oxidase and also chromatin decondensation dependent upon the enzymes (PAD4), neutrophil elastase (NE) and myeloperoxidase (MPO). NET release also occurs through an early/rap ...[more]