Entrapment exploited

• Autores: Jos A. G. van Strijp, Suzan H. M. Rooijakkers
• Localización: Trends in microbiology, ISSN 0966-842X, Vol. 22, Nº. 2, 2014, págs. 55-57
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In their recent paper in Science, Thammavongsa et al. demonstrate how Staphylococcus aureus degrades the DNA of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) into 2?-deoxy-adenosine, which causes incoming macrophages to go into apoptosis, thereby increasing the chance for the bacterium to survive in an abscess.