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JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 191, Issue 3, Pages 677-691Publisher
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201006052
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- Max Planck Society
- EMBO Long term fellowship
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Neutrophils release decondensed chromatin termed neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) to trap and kill pathogens extracellularly Reactive oxygen species are required to initiate NET formation but the downstream molecular mechanism is unknown We show that upon activation, neutrophil elastase (NE) escapes from azurophilic granules and translocates to the nucleus, where it partially degrades specific histones, promoting chromatin decondensation Subsequently, myeloperoxidase synergizes with NE in driving chromatin decondensation independent of its enzymatic activity Accordingly, NE knockout mice do not form NETs in a pulmonary model of Klebsiella pneumoniae infection, which suggests that this defect may contribute to the immune deficiency of these mice This mechanism provides for a novel function for serine proteases and highly charged granular proteins in the regulation of chromatin density, and reveals that the oxidative burst induces a selective release of granular proteins into the cytoplasm through an unknown mechanism
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