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Aspartic Proteases and Major Cell Wall Components in

Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology (2017-10-07)
Marcin Zawrotniak, Oliwia Bochenska, Justyna Karkowska-Kuleta, Karolina Seweryn-Ozog, Wataru Aoki, Mitsuyoshi Ueda, Andrzej Kozik, Maria Rapala-Kozik
PMID28983472
ABSTRACT

Neutrophils use different mechanisms to cope with pathogens that invade the host organism. The most intriguing of these responses is a release of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) composed of decondensed chromatin and granular proteins with antimicrobial activity. An important potential target of NETs is