Small molecule acts as on-off switch for nature's antibiotic factory
Thursday, August 28, 2014 - 17:30
in Biology & Nature
The soil bacteria Streptomyces form filamentous branches that extend into the air to create spiraling towers of spores. Scientists have identified the developmental on-off switch for Streptomyces, a group of soil microbes that produce more than two-thirds of the world's naturally derived antibiotic medicines.