Neutrophil extracellular traps capture and kill Candida albicans yeast and hyphal forms
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It is shown for the first time that Candida albicans, a eukaryotic pathogen, induces NET‐formation and is susceptible to NET‐mediated killing, and that granule components mediate fungal killing.Abstract:
Neutrophils phagocytose and kill microbes upon phagolysosomal fusion. Recently we found that activated neutrophils form extracellular fibres that consist of granule proteins and chromatin. These neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) degrade virulence factors and kill Gram positive and negative bacteria. Here we show for the first time that Candida albicans, a eukaryotic pathogen, induces NET-formation and is susceptible to NET-mediated killing. C. albicans is the predominant aetiologic agent of fungal infections in humans, particularly in immunocompromised hosts. One major virulence trait of C. albicans is its ability to reversibly switch from singular budding cells to filamentous hyphae. We demonstrate that NETs kill both yeast-form and hyphal cells, and that granule components mediate fungal killing. Taken together our data indicate that neutrophils trap and kill ascomycetous yeasts by forming NETs.read more
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Neutrophil Extracellular Traps in Candida albicans Infection
TL;DR: This review specifically focuses on the mechanisms by which C. albicans triggers NET formation and their subsequent interactions, which might provide meaningful insight into the innate immunity against C.Albicans infection.
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Cell death processes in immune cells of the shore crab, Carcinus maenas
TL;DR: The C. maenas model is used as an experimental model for the study of cell death in invertebrates and its effects on host defence reactions are studied.
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Extracellular DNA Traps: Origin, Function and Implications for Anti-Cancer Therapies
Medina Mamtimin,Akif Pinarci,Chao Han,Attila Braun,Hans-Joachim Anders,Thomas Gudermann,Elmina Mammadova-Bach +6 more
TL;DR: The pathomechanisms of ET formation generated by different cell types are summarized, and potential ET-inhibiting agents, which may open new therapeutic strategies for cancer prevention and treatment are critically discussed.
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The Biology of CNAPS
TL;DR: The relationship of the DNA from cancer patients is considered with respect to the formation of metastases and the amounts of DNA/RNA present together with the variables affecting these amounts are discussed.
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Neutrophil extracellular traps from healthy donors and HIV-1-infected individuals restrict HIV-1 production in macrophages.
Andres Mojoli,Barbara Simonson Gonçalves,Jairo R. Temerozo,Jairo R. Temerozo,Bruno Cister-Alves,Victor Emmanuel Viana Geddes,Alice Laschuk Herlinger,Renato S. Aguiar,Renato S. Aguiar,José Henrique Pilotto,Elvira M. Saraiva,Dumith Chequer Bou-Habib,Dumith Chequer Bou-Habib +12 more
TL;DR: It is found that exposure of HIV-1-infected macrophages to NETs resulted in significant inhibition of viral replication, revealing that NETs may function as an innate immunity mechanism able to restrain HIV- 1 production in macrophage.
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