Antimicrobial Histones and DNA Traps in Invertebrate Immunity

Host-Derived Extracellular Nucleic Acids Enhance Innate Immune Responses, Induce Coagulation, and Prolong Survival upon Infection in Insects

(2014) B. Altincicek et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

HMGB1 promotes neutrophil extracellular trap formation through interactions with Toll-like receptor 4

(2013) Jean-Marc Tadie et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LUNG CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY

Neutrophils Recruited to Sites of Infection Protect from Virus Challenge by Releasing Neutrophil Extracellular Traps

(2013) Craig N. Jenne et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

Shrimp hemocytes release extracellular traps that kill bacteria

(2013) Tze Hann Ng et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

High mobility group box 1 can enhance NF-κB activation and act as a pro-inflammatory molecule in the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas

(2013) Jun Li et al.   FISH & SHELLFISH IMMUNOLOGY

Updating the Vibrio clades defined by multilocus sequence phylogeny: proposal of eight new clades, and the description of Vibrio tritonius sp. nov.

(2013) Tomoo Sawabe et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Intravascular Neutrophil Extracellular Traps Capture Bacteria from the Bloodstream during Sepsis

(2012) Braedon McDonald et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

Infection-induced NETosis is a dynamic process involving neutrophil multitasking in vivo

(2012) Bryan G Yipp et al.   NATURE MEDICINE

Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

(2012) Johannes Schindelin et al.   NATURE METHODS

Reactive Oxygen Species in Unstimulated Hemocytes of the Pacific Oyster Crassostrea gigas: A Mitochondrial Involvement

(2012) Ludovic Donaghy et al.   PLoS One

Human  -Defensin 6 Promotes Mucosal Innate Immunity Through Self-Assembled Peptide Nanonets

(2012) H. Chu et al.   SCIENCE

The Antimicrobial Defense of the Pacific Oyster, Crassostrea gigas. How Diversity may Compensate for Scarcity in the Regulation of Resident/Pathogenic Microflora

(2012) Paulina Schmitt et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Multiple antibacterial histone H2B proteins are expressed in tissues of American oyster

(2010) Jung-Kil Seo et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

The major outer membrane protein OmpU of Vibrio splendidus contributes to host antimicrobial peptide resistance and is required for virulence in the oyster Crassostrea gigas

(2010) Marylise Duperthuy et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Upregulation in response to infection and antibacterial activity of oyster histone H4

(2010) Tarquin Dorrington et al.   FISH & SHELLFISH IMMUNOLOGY

Insight into Invertebrate Defensin Mechanism of Action

(2010) Paulina Schmitt et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Abhisin: A potential antimicrobial peptide derived from histone H2A of disk abalone (Haliotis discus discus)

(2009) Mahanama De Zoysa et al.   FISH & SHELLFISH IMMUNOLOGY

Histone hypercitrullination mediates chromatin decondensation and neutrophil extracellular trap formation

(2009) Yanming Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

NETs: a new strategy for using old weapons

(2009) Venizelos Papayannopoulos et al.   TRENDS IN IMMUNOLOGY

Neutrophil extracellular traps are induced by Mycobacterium tuberculosis

(2008) Victoria Ramos-Kichik et al.   TUBERCULOSIS