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Study could lead to new antibiotics to fight bacterial infections – News-Medical.Net
One member of a large protein family that is known to stop the spread of bacterial infections by prompting infected human cells to self-destruct appears to kill…
One member of a large protein family that is known to stop the spread of bacterial infections by prompting infected human cells to self-destruct appears to kill the infectious bacteria instead, a new study led by UT Southwestern scientists shows. However, some bacteria have their own mechanism to thwart this attack, nullifying the deadly protein by tagging it for destruction.
The findings, published online today in Cell, could lead to new antibiotics to fight bacterial infections. And insight into…
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