Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2020 Jul 13;8(7):1039. doi: 10.3390/microorganisms8071039

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

© 2020 by the authors.

Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

PMC Copyright notice

The interaction between polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMNs) and Bacillus anthracis (hkBa) or anthrax peptidoglycan (PGN) is dependent on the complement opsonization of pathogen particles. (A) Flow cytometry gating strategy and exemplification of neutrophil purification (CD16^high leukocytes). (B) Histogram overlay of FITC-labelled hkBa (left) and/or PGN (right) interaction with CD16^high PMNs isolated from a median responsive individual, in the presence of compstatin, a C3 convertase inhibitor, or the immunodepletion of complement factors.