When dismantling bacterial biofilms, the first line of defense comes from within

A team of researchers in the Center for Microbial Pathogenesis in the Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital recently characterized the anti-biofilm properties of HMGB1, a protein innate to eukaryotes and the immune systems of vertebrates, engineered modified molecules of the protein, and tested a therapeutic cocktail consisting of those molecules and antibodies that remove DNABII, a bacterial-DNA-binding protein. They demonstrated in a variety of models that delivering this molecule to a host facilitated the rapid and full clearance of highly resistant biofilms without inducing an inflammatory response.

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