Researchers find new chemical key that could unlock hundreds of new antibiotics
Date: 2.11.2008
Chemistry researchers at The University of Warwick and the John Innes Centre, have found a **novel signalling molecule** that could be a key that will open up hundreds of **new antibiotics** unlocking them from the DNA of the Streptomyces family of bacteria.
With bacterial resistance growing researchers are keen to uncover as many new antibiotics as possible. Some of the Streptomyces bacteria are already used industrially to produce current antibiotics and researchers have developed approaches to find and exploit new pathways for antibiotic production in the genome of the Streptomyces family.
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