Researchers uncover protein's job protecting pneumonia-causing pathogen from copper poisoning
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - 07:30
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org)—A team of chemists and biologists led by Indiana University chemistry professor David Giedroc has described a previously unknown function of a protein they now know is responsible for protecting a major bacterial pathogen from toxic levels of copper. The results were published Jan. 27 in Nature Chemical Biology.