Nuclease expression by Staphylococcus aureus facilitates escape from neutrophil extracellular traps

Journal of Innate Immunity

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 576-586

  Berends, Evelien T M ^a   Horswill, Alexander R ^b   Haste, Nina M ^a,d   Monestier, Marc ^c   Nizet, Victor ^a,d,e   Von Köckritz Blickwede, Maren ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^e RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Innate immunity; Neutrophil extracellular traps; Nuclease; Staphylococcus aureus; Virulence factor

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; NUCLEASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; MORTALITY; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; NOSE INFECTION; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TYPE STRAIN; UNITED STATES; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIOLYSIS; CELL-DERIVED MICROPARTICLES; CELLS, CULTURED; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNE EVASION; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICROCOCCAL NUCLEASE; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NEUTROPHILS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SEQUENCE DELETION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 77956377460     PISSN: 1662811X     EISSN: 16628128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000319909     Document Type: Article

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