Structure of antibiotic ramoplanin reveals promising mechanism
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 - 07:35
in Biology & Nature
With the 'last resort' antibiotic Vancomycin now plagued by the first signs of bacterial resistance, a scientific collaboration centred 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...