.Keenan Lacey, Serpas, Makita, Reizis, Victor J. Torres and colleagues NYU Grossman School of Medicine show that DNASE1 and its homolog DNASE1L3 jointly facilitate resistance to systemic infection with #Staphylococcus aureus by digesting bacterial #biofilms. bit.ly/3TmFbyX

In JExpMed, Keenan Lacey, Serpas, Makita, Reizis, Victor J. Torres and colleagues NYU Grossman School of Medicine show that DNASE1 and its homolog DNASE1L3 jointly facilitate resistance to systemic infection with #Staphylococcus aureus by digesting bacterial #biofilms. bit.ly/3TmFbyX

🎉Congrats to Keenan Lacey, an #NYULHpostdoc in the Victor J. Torres lab! Check out his recent work on how DNases protect against bacterial infections 🧫👇

Secreted mammalian DNases protect against systemic bacterial infection by digesting #biofilms, say Keenan Lacey, Lee Serpas, Sohei Makita, Boris Reizis, Victor Torres Victor J. Torres & colleagues NYU Grossman School of Medicine: bit.ly/3TmFbyX #Autoimmunity #inflammation #InfectiousDisease

✅ Identification of #HostDefense mechanisms (#staph) ✅ Insights into the function of #DNase homologs in immunity ✅ A *super cool* video illustration 📽️ Don't miss this article from Keenan Lacey at Victor J. Torres and collaborators! 👇

.Keenan Lacey, Serpas, Makita, Reizis, Victor J. Torres & colleagues NYU Grossman School of Medicine show that DNASE1 and DNASE1L3 jointly facilitate the control of bacterial infection by digesting extracellular microbial DNA in #biofilms: bit.ly/3TmFbyX

1/n #Staph #MRSA is a formidable #AMR pathogen that has eluded vaccines and biologics. How can we tackle this jack of all trades? Excited to share our new study, the fruits of a 10 years collaboration with #JanssenBioTherapeutics JanssenUS. The long 🧵 cell.com/cell-host-micr…

Multivalent anti-S. aureus SM1B74 mAbtyrin that simultaneously targets multiple bacterial virulence strategies w/ efficacy in preclinical models Cell Host & Microbe JanssenUS Victor J. Torres Rita Chan Aidan O'Malley Keenan Lacey Ashley DuMont cell.com/cell-host-micr…

Insights: Mohini B and Horswill Horswill Lab CU Anschutz Medical Campus discuss study from Keenan Lacey Victor J. Torres et al. (bit.ly/3TmFbyX) which shows that exogenous addition of the DNase formulation Dornase alfa can facilitate removal of biofilms. bit.ly/44oTRmC

Such a cool opportunity with Horswill Lab to provide Insight on beautiful work Keenan Lacey from one of my favorite scientists! Victor J. Torres

Now online! An antibiotic from an uncultured bacterium binds to an immutable target dlvr.it/Sv2LYR

1/7 Happy to share a new publication from the team spearheaded by Keenan Lacey published today in Science Advances. This project was started at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and was completed St. Jude Research by Adam Pickrum and A. Castellaw. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…