NADPH oxidase promotes neutrophil extracellular trap formation in 1 pulmonary aspergillosis 2 3 Running title : NADPH oxidase and NETs in pulmonary aspergillosis

9 1 Department of Clinical Microbiology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden 10 2 Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden, Umeå University, Umeå, 11 Sweden 12 3 Umeå Centre for Microbial Research, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden 13 4 Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United 14 States of America 15 5 Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at 16 Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America 17 Department of Immunology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, 18 United States of America 19 20 * Equally contributing senior authors 21 22 23 24 # Correspondence: 25 Constantin F. Urban, constantin.urban@mims.umu.se 26 Brahm H. Segal, Brahm.Segal@RoswellPark.org 27 28