The heme-scavenger, hemopexin, protects against fungal lung injury by mitigating NETosis: an experimental and computational study.
Ganlin Qu, Henrique AL Ribeiro, Angelica L. Solomon, Luis Sordo Vieira, Yana Goddard, Nickolas G. Diodati, Arantxa V. Lazarte, Matthew Wheeler, Reinhard Laubenbacher, Borna Mehrad
This study shows hemopexin reduces fungal lung injury by limiting heme-mediated NETosis in aspergillosis.
JCI Insight · Apr 15, 2025Peer-reviewedImmunology