"It seems as if extracellular pathogens like staph have evolved secreted nucleases so they can cut their way out of these NETs -- chop off the spider web and escape," Skaar said.

"It seems as if extracellular pathogens like staph have evolved secreted nucleases so they can cut their way out of these NETs - chop off the spider web and escape," Skaar said.

When a neutrophil encounters a pathogen, it can respond in several ways: phagocytosis, degranulation, or by releasing neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs). In NET release, shown here, the enzyme ...

“It seems as if extracellular pathogens like S. aureus have evolved secreted nucleases so they can cut their way out of these NETs — chop off the spider web and escape,” Skaar revealed. The nuclease ...

Fungal extracellular vesicles (EVs) are membrane-bound structures that have emerged as critical mediators in the complex interplay between fungal pathogens and their hosts. These vesicles, which ...

Influenza hemagglutinin subunit vaccines are more effective and offer better cross protection against various influenza virus ...

However, scientists haven't fully understood whether infected tissue itself has any role in directing the optimal T cell differentiation in response to tissue infection.

A team at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) led by Dr. Andrés Hidalgo has discovered a specialized population of neutrophils in the skin that produce extracellular ...

A team of scientists at the University of California, Riverside, explains in a paper published in PLOS Pathogens how a microscopic parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, can significantly disrupt brain ...

A new review was published as the cover paper of Aging, titled "Types of cell death and their relations to host immunological pathways." Various immune pathways in the host, such as TH1, TH2, TH3 ...

“It seems as if extracellular pathogens like staph have evolved secreted nucleases so they can cut their way out of these NETs — chop off the spider web and escape,” Skaar said.