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BLOOD
Volume 121, Issue 3, Pages 510-518Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2012-05-431114
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- Hungarian National Research Fund [OTKA K81277, K75084]
- Health Research Council (ETT)
- TAMOP [4.2.1/B-09/1/KMR-2010-0001, 4.2.2/B10/1-2010-0013]
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Cell-derived vesicles represent a recently discovered mechanism for intercellular communication. We investigated their potential role in interaction of microbes with host organisms. We provide evidence that different stimuli induced isolated neutrophilic granulocytes to release microvesicles with different biologic properties. Only opsonized particles initiated the formation of microvesicles that were able to impair bacterial growth. The antibacterial effect of neutrophil-derived microvesicles was independent of production of toxic oxygen metabolites and opsonization or engulfment of the microbes, but depended on beta(2) integrin function, continuous actin remodeling, and on the glucose supply. Neutrophil-derived microvesicles were detected in the serum of healthy donors, and their number was significantly increased in the serum of bacteremic patients. We propose a new extracellular mechanism to restrict bacterial growth and dissemination. (Blood. 2013;121(3):510-518)
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