Neutralizing the pathological effects of extracellular histones with small polyanions
oleh: Connor H. O’ Meara, Lucy A. Coupland, Farzaneh Kordbacheh, Benjamin J. C. Quah, Chih-Wei Chang, David A. Simon Davis, Anna Bezos, Anna M. Browne, Craig Freeman, Dillon J. Hammill, Pradeep Chopra, Gergely Pipa, Paul D. Madge, Esther Gallant, Courtney Segovis, Angela F. Dulhunty, Leonard F. Arnolda, Imogen Mitchell, Levon M. Khachigian, Ross W. Stephens, Mark von Itzstein, Christopher R. Parish
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2020-12-01 |
Deskripsi
Histones, proteins that bind DNA, are toxic for pathogens outside cells but can also cause multi-organ damage as seen in sepsis. Here the authors develop small negatively charged molecules that can be used as histone antidotes, and show that they improve the phenotype in mouse models with histone-related pathologies.