Social amoebae trap and kill bacteria by casting DNA nets

Neutrophils sense microbe size and selectively release neutrophil extracellular traps in response to large pathogens

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Pyocyanin-Enhanced Neutrophil Extracellular Trap Formation Requires the NADPH Oxidase

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Evolution of the Ferric Reductase Domain (FRD) Superfamily: Modularity, Functional Diversification, and Signature Motifs

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Did Terrestrial Diversification of Amoebas (Amoebozoa) Occur in Synchrony with Land Plants?

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Staphylococcus aureus Degrades Neutrophil Extracellular Traps to Promote Immune Cell Death

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Modulation of neutrophil NETosis: interplay between infectious agents and underlying host physiology

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Neutrophil Extracellular Traps Mediate a Host Defense Response to Human Immunodeficiency Virus-1

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Neutrophil extracellular traps: Is immunity the second function of chromatin?

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

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Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and the Neutrophil

(2011) Xavier Bosch   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

ROS signaling: the new wave?

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Extracellular DNA traps promote thrombosis

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Restoration of NET formation by gene therapy in CGD controls aspergillosis

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Impaired neutrophil extracellular trap (NET) formation: a novel innate immune deficiency of human neonates

(2009) C. C. Yost et al.   BLOOD

Viable neutrophils release mitochondrial DNA to form neutrophil extracellular traps

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Infection by Tubercular Mycobacteria Is Spread by Nonlytic Ejection from Their Amoeba Hosts

(2009) M. Hagedorn et al.   SCIENCE

Eat, kill or die: when amoeba meets bacteria

(2008) Pierre Cosson et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Catapult-like release of mitochondrial DNA by eosinophils contributes to antibacterial defense

(2008) Shida Yousefi et al.   NATURE MEDICINE

ETosis: A Novel Cell Death Pathway

(2008) F. Wartha et al.   Science Signaling

Widespread duplications in the genomes of laboratory stocks of Dictyostelium discoideum

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