Bacterial hole puncher could be new broad-spectrum antibiotic

Wednesday, October 28, 2015 - 16:20 in Biology & Nature

Bacteria have many methods of adapting to resist antibiotics, but a new class of spiral polypeptides developed at the University of Illinois targets one thing no bacterium can live without: an outer membrane.

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