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Dora Čerina
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PhD student at the Zychlinsky lab working on neutrophils vs bacteria 👩‍🔬
Max Planck for Infection Biology in Berlin, Germany
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We're excited to share our new preprint on bioRxiv! ✨

You can view it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

See below for more information 👇
The main culprit behind urinary tract infections is a strain of E. coli known as UPEC. To survive in the body, UPEC has to evade our immune system, especially neutrophils, a type of immune cell that traps and kills bacteria using web-like structures called NETs. In our study, we discovered a previously unknown two-gene system in UPEC that we named DanRI (Defense against neutrophil Regulator and Inhibitor). This system is turned on by NETs and helps the bacteria block neutrophil attacks. Without DanRI, UPEC struggles to survive and persist during infections.
June 16, 2025 at 8:41 AM