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Neither eosinophils nor neutrophils require ATG5-dependent autophagy for extracellular DNA trap formation.
Immunology - 1 Nov 2017
Germic Nina, Stojkov Darko, Oberson Kevin, Yousefi Shida, Simon Hans-Uwe
Abstract excerpt
The importance of extracellular traps (ETs) in innate immunity is well established, but the molecular mechanisms responsible for their formation remain unclear and in scientific dispute. ETs have been defined as extracellular DNA scaffolds associated with the granule proteins of eosinophils or neutrophils. They are capable of killing bacteria extracellularly. Based mainly on results with phosphoinositide 3-kinase...
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