Energy-saving Bacteria Resist Antibiotics
Wednesday, September 3, 2008 - 09:21
in Health & Medicine
Bacteria save energy by producing proteins that moonlight, having different roles at different times, which may also protect the microbes from being killed. The moonlighting activity of one enzyme from the tuberculosis bacterium makes it partially resistant to a family of broad-spectrum antibiotics, according to a paper published in the journal Microbiology.