Odd biochemistry yields lethal bacterial protein
Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - 13:02
in Biology & Nature
While working out the structure of a cell-killing protein produced by some strains of the bacterium Enterococcus faecalis, researchers stumbled on a bit of unusual biochemistry. They found that a single enzyme helps form distinctly different, three-dimensional ring structures in the protein, one of which had never been observed before.