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Phagocyte mayHEME caused by severe hemolysis

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Free heme released by hemolysis directly inhibits bacterial phagocytosis by macrophages via alterations of actin cytoskeletal dynamics.

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Figure 1: Excess free heme perturbs the cytoskeletal dynamics of phagocytes, which results in the inhibition of phagocytosis and migration.

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  1. Sioh-Yang Tan is with the Immune Imaging Program, Centenary Institute for Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology, Newtown, Australia,

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  2. The University of Sydney Medical School, Sydney, Australia.,

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  3. Wolfgang Weninger is with the Immune Imaging Program, Centenary Institute for Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology, Newtown, Australia,

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  4. The University of Sydney Medical School, Sydney, Australia,

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  5. the Department of Dermatology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, Australia.,

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Tan, SY., Weninger, W. Phagocyte mayHEME caused by severe hemolysis. Nat Immunol 17, 1335–1337 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/ni.3616

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