Newly Engineered Versions of Bacterial Enzyme Reveal How Antibiotics Could Be More Potent
NEW YORK, Aug. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Modern medicine depends on antibiotics to treat infections by disabling targets inside bacterial cells.
- NEW YORK, Aug. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Modern medicine depends on antibiotics to treat infections by disabling targets inside bacterial cells.
- Once inside these cells, antibiotics bind to certain sites on specific enzyme targets to stop bacterial growth.
- Researchers have for decades studied resistant mutants in hopes that related mechanisms would guide the design of new treatments to overcome resistance.
- Not only does the antibiotic prevent these mutants from growing, it nearly obliterates the mutant bacterial populations.