Immune cells deploy traps to catch and kill pathogens
Tuesday, October 26, 2010 - 00:01
in Biology & Nature
A new study reveals that two enzymes help immune cells deploy pathogen-killing traps by unraveling and using the chromatin (DNA and its associated proteins) contained in the cells' nuclei to form defensive webs. The study appears online on October 25 in The Journal of Cell Biology (www.jcb.org).