Structure of antibiotic ramoplanin reveals promising mechanism
Monday, August 3, 2009 - 16:28
in Biology & Nature
With the "last resort" antibiotic Vancomycin now plagued by the first signs of bacterial resistance, a scientific collaboration centered at Duke University has identified how a candidate successor antibiotic known as Ramoplanin A2 can kill pathogenic bacteria by interrupting how they form their cell membranes.