Small molecule acts as on-off switch for nature's antibiotic factory: Tells Streptomyces to either veg out or get busy
Friday, August 29, 2014 - 04:00
in Biology & Nature
Biochemists 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. Their hope now would be to see whether it is possible to manipulate this switch to make nature's antibiotic factory more efficient.
