Details of bacterial 'injection' system revealed

Sunday, April 26, 2009 - 13:07 in Biology & Nature

New details of the composition and structure of a needlelike protein complex on the surface of certain bacteria may help scientists develop new strategies to thwart infection. The research, conducted in part at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, was published 26 April 2009, in the advance online edition of Nature Structural and Molecular Biology...

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