Review Article

Far beyond Phagocytosis: Phagocyte-Derived Extracellular Traps Act Efficiently against Protozoan Parasites In Vitro and In Vivo

Table 1

List of apicomplexan and euglenozoan protozoa capable of inducing ETosis, host species, professional phagocytes triggering ETs, and molecular mechanisms involved in this cell death process.

ParasitesHost speciesProfessional phagocytesETosis dependencyReferences

Eimeria bovisBovinePMNNOX
NE
MPO
CD11b
ERK 1/2
p38 MAPK
SOCE
Muñoz-Caro et al. [23]

Eimeria arloingiCaprinePMNNOX Silva et al. [24]

Eimeria ninakohlyakimovaeCaprinePMNNOX Pérez et al. (submitted manuscript)
MonocytesNOX Pérez et al. (submitted manuscript)

Toxoplasma gondiiMousePMNERK 1/2 Abi Abdallah et al. [25]
Harbour sealPMNNOX
NE
MPO
SOCE
Reichel et al. [26]

Besnoitia besnoitiBovinePMNNOX
NE
MPO
Muñoz-Caro et al. [27]
BovineMonocytesNOX
MPO
Muñoz-Caro et al. [28]

Neospora caninumBovinePMNNOX
NE
MPO
ERK 1/2
p38 MAPK
SOCE
P2Y2
PAD4
Villagra-Blanco et al. (submitted manuscript)

Cryptosporidium parvumBovinePMNNOX
NE
MPO
ERK 1/2
p38 MAPK
SOCE
Muñoz-Caro et al. [14]

Leishmania spp.HumanPMNNOX
NE
PAD4
Rochael et al. [29]

Trypanosoma cruziHumanPMNNOX
TLR2
TLR4
Sousa-Rocha et al. [30]