ArticleJournal of innate immunity2014
Cystic fibrosis sputum DNA has NETosis characteristics and neutrophil extracellular trap release is regulated by macrophage migration-inhibitory factor.
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136 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 207 citations in OpenAlex.
- The emerging role of immunothrombosis in paediatric conditions.Pediatric research · 2019Pooled it
- Neutrophil extracellular traps in cardiovascular disease: Mechanisms and therapeutic implications (Review).International journal of molecular medicine · 2026Review
- Blood DNA methylation profile is altered in severe bronchiectasis.ERJ open research · 2026Article
- Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETosis) in gynecologic cancers: from pathogenesis to therapeutic opportunities: a narrative review.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026Review
- Neutrophil Extracellular Traps in Cancer Metastasis: From Mechanistic Understanding to Targeted Therapy.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2026Review
- NETosis-Dependent Generation of Immunodeficient Low-Density Neutrophils Exacerbates Sepsis-Induced Acute Lung Injury.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Neutrophil extracellular traps and acute kidney injury: a narrative review.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- Neutrophil Extracellular Traps in Wound Healing of Diabetes: Mechanisms, Inducers, and Therapeutic Implications.Mediators of inflammation · 2026Review
- A comprehensive insight into NETosis-extracellular vesicle crosstalk in autoimmune diseases.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2026Review
- Deciphering hub genes and immune landscapes related to neutrophil extracellular traps in spinal cord injury: insights from integrated bioinformatics analyses and experiments.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Article
- The airway mycobiome in chronic respiratory diseases: current advances and future frontiers.Journal of translational medicine · 2025Review
- Extracellular traps, an ancient defense mechanism described in hemocytes of the tick Rhipicephalus microplus.Parasites & vectors · 2025Article
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- Neutrophil Extracellular Traps (NETs) in health and disease.Molecular biomedicine · 2025Review
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- Metabolic strategies that enable oral commensal persistence in a lower airway environment.mBio · 2025Article
- Neutrophils and NETs in Pathophysiology and Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Exploring the involvement of serine proteases in neutrophil extracellular traps: a review of mechanisms and implications.Cell death & disease · 2025Review
- CitH3, a Druggable Biomarker for Human Diseases Associated with Acute NETosis and Chronic Immune Dysfunction.Pharmaceutics · 2025Review
- Mechanisms and immune crosstalk of neutrophil extracellular traps in response to infection.mBio · 2025Review
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Abstract
Neutrophils are the main proinflammatory cell type in chronically infected lungs of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients; however, they fail to effectively clear the colonizing pathogens. Here, we investigated the molecular composition of non-mucoid and mucoid Pseudomonas aeruginosa-induced neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) in vitro and compared them to the DNA-protein complexes present in the CF sputum. The protein composition of P. aeruginosa-induced NET fragments revealed that irrespective of the inducing stimuli, NET fragments were decorated with a conserved set of proteins. The DNA-protein complexes derived from CF sputum were consistent with NETosis and shared a similar protein signature, suggesting that the majority of the extracellular DNA was NET derived. The ability of polymorphonuclear leukocytes to produce NETs in response to P. aeruginosa was driven by macrophage migration-inhibitory factor (MIF) by promoting mitogen-activated protein kinase. Analysis of 132 CF patient samples revealed that elevated MIF protein levels correlated with poorer lung function. We suggest that targeting MIF by small molecular inhibitors might reduce the presence of extracellular DNA and serve as an adjunct to the use of antimicrobial drugs that could ultimately reduce bacterial fitness in the lungs during the later stages of CF disease.
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