The growing problem of antibiotic resistance has ... of proteins that are localized in the bacterial membrane. But where will the cell-division inhibitors come from? There is increasing evidence ...

Some antibiotics, including tetracycline, which is used to treat acne, respiratory tract infections and other conditions, inhibit protein ... of a bacterium's cell membrane, which controls how ...

But that process requires that antibiotic molecules cross the bacteria’s cell membrane to reach those ... our tools to develop new assays to find inhibitors for those enzymes.

Whakaihu Waka researchers have been part of two studies in the battle against drug resistant strains of Mycobacterium ...

Whether bacteria are resistant to antibiotics is often decided at the cell membrane ... cytotoxins and inhibitors, shed light on how this transport process occurs at the membrane, how it is ...

Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche has announced that a new antibiotic, zosurabalpin, is progressing to phase 3 testing.

To fight this resistance, researchers are creating pharmaceuticals that attack and inhibit the ... cost of creating the antibiotic-degrading enzyme has left the resistant cell population depleted ...

Scientists say they have developed a new type of antibiotic ... membrane, where they’re needed to maintain the membrane’s integrity. This causes the molecules to accumulate inside the ...

unlike most antibiotics. On one hand, they bind to membrane lipids, destabilizing the bacterial membrane. Additionally, they inhibit two enzymes involved in cell wall and protein synthesis.

To kill drug-resistant bacteria, “last-resort” antibiotics borrow a tactic ... In the new study, Hiller and colleagues exposed bits of cell membrane from Escherichia coli to varying ...

University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka researchers have been part of two groundbreaking studies in the battle against ...

In addition to the urgent need for new antibiotics ... One focus is on membrane channels in the cell envelope that transport ...