La mieloperoxidasa transforma la cromatina en las trampas extracelulares de los neutrófilos

Garth Lawrence Burn1, Tobias Raisch2, Sebastian Tacke2

  • 1Department of Cellular Microbiology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany.

Nature
|September 17, 2025
PubMed
Resumen

La mieloperoxidasa (MPO) juega un doble papel en las trampas extracelulares de neutrófilos (NET). Los dímeros de MPO desmontan los nucleosomas para la formación de NET, mientras que los monómeros de MPO se unen a los NET para permitir las funciones inmunes.

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